"In many respects, the election was between voters who supported Trump and those who didn't. And Biden was widely supported as the candidate who wasn't Trump. So the result can be seen just as much as a defeat for Trump as a victory for Biden."

"If what you say in your first paragraph [above] henryp is what you and Americans in general think and feel - then the USA is stuffed and will remain bitterly divided."

We'll see. But democracy would have been at even greater risk if Trump had won a second term. I can't see Biden governing by tweets he makes up to contradict the truth.