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2020's vote total was a sign of society inescapably seeing a hero/asshole daily depending on who you ask and society inescapably recognizing the crisis of a pandemic which was affecting previously-normal daily behaviors. It was much more than just Biden > Hillary -- you just could not ignore there was an election in a much bigger way than usual.

I'll grant that before Donald announced his candidacy, Hillary was the least popular general election candidate to exist yet. However, swapping Hillary out for Biden probably isn't a 16,000,000-vote difference among Democrats against a common opponent. Likewise, switching out Hillary for Biden wouldn't normally gain 11,000,000 more votes for Donald.

Judging Donald as arguably the world's most written-about person and surviving the pandemic. That's mostly why 2020 had uniquely high vote totals.