We we agree on one thing, I am not a fan of compulsory voting either
By not having compulsory voting, many voters don't bother voting unless there are important issues at play.
I did predict USA would have a record voter turnout due to the Covid pandemic and Trump's poor handling of it, well my prediction of that was right.
While Trump was rather dismissive of the pandemic and measures to get it under control, Biden was well aware how important an issue it was to people and it was at the fore front of his election campaign. That got record number of voters out to vote Trump out
