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It's not the only reason Trump's back in office. You should also consider
I'm not talking about how Biden/Kamala could have won.
They'd have 100% lost to any none maga opponent. And a cynic would say that's why his handles refused to hold trump accountable. Which makes sense because that's how trump became the president in 2016, they were overconfident because it worked in 2020, so they rolled the dice and lost again.
The silver lining is Kamala losing meant the DNC voting members had (and took) a chance on someone who runs fair primaries and supports whoever gets to the general.
We know it's different because he's been hemorrhaging money from the "victory fund" that literally started all of this back to the state parties the money was stolen from over the past decade.
That's a huge advantage, we've been running every state Dem office at campaign levels for 18 months straight and will continue to do so till the next presidential election.
The money is being used instead of hoarded for the next neoliberal candidate.
Oh yeah. I'm with you on all of that. Just saying that the mechanics by which Biden, and the Democrats under his leadership at large, have fucked us goes way deeper than the failure to prosecute the orange turd.