Local elections are due to take place in May - Credit: Getty Images Like many people, I breathed a sigh of relief last week when Airforce One took off for the last time carrying the considerable load of Donald J Trump’s ego. It deposited him a few hours later for a limo ride from Palm Beach Airport through the drained Florida swamps to his terminal destination at Mar-a-Lago. Such was the hysteria that he’d finally left the stage that my relief was less to do with democracy than merely that none of his tragically brainwashed followers had unleashed bazooka rounds at President Biden’s inauguration. We’ve been exposed to so many movies like Olympus Has Fallen or White House Down that we are habituated to fictional portrayals of the heart of US democracy being taken over by berserk terrorists.