“But who did Americans — even those on the centre and left choose? Not Bernie. Not Liz. …They chose Joe Biden….”

I voted for Joe because Bernie and Liz didn’t have a chance. The way the electoral college works, if even 45000 of the 81 million who voted for Biden had instead voted for Trump, democracy would truly be dead in the USA — provided those 45000 votes were in the three battleground states Trump needed to install himself indefinitely as Fuerer.