Joe Biden elected 46th president of the United States

[Andrewn]

By contrast, in Canada and Europe they use Parliamentary systems. You vote for your local representative and, once they are all elected it is up to Parliament to form a government. There is no "re-election" if no one gets a majority (at least typically), instead the parties closest to each other tend to band together to form a government.

I agree with your reasoning. In the G7, beside the US, the only country that has a presidential system is France. But, even there, the government is responsible to the House of Representatives / National Assembly and must implement the agenda of the parliamentary majority.

In the US, the House of Representatives has relatively weak power. The president forms the government and the Senate, not the House, has the power of confirming the government.

 

[Semper-Fi]

The russian collusion investigation had nothing at all to do with the left. The investigation was instigated by the neutral agency of the FBI and continued because the Republican acting AG instigated the Special Council.

Steele created the dossier as opposition research for
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

He was paid by the Democratic National Committee through a law firm
called Perkins Coie and the d.c.-based research firm Fusion gps.

The Nunes memo was a Russian propaganda dossier. Top officials knew
this document was “salacious and unverified,” as former fbi director James Comey
put it, but they still presented it to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (fisa)
court as if it were proof of a legitimate foreign threat to America.


They conveniently neglected to disclose to the fisa court
Steele’s close ties to the Clinton campaign.

Two years and almost $40 million later “the investigation did not establish
that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the
Russian government in its election interference activities”

Not one single American was indicted or convicted for conspiring
with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.

 

[Semper-Fi]

It's not the Democrats that have the credibility issue. Trump is effectively trying to undermine the entire U.S. electoral system. You'd think some of you would have a problem with that...

And what has President Trump done now that is unlawful
to do in this 2020 election, to undermine the system ?

 

[stevil]

Steele created the dossier as opposition research for
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign..

Steele dossier - Wikipedia
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
Separately, in April 2016, an attorney for Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump, while The Free Beacon stopped its backing in May 2016
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. DNC officials denied knowing their attorney had contracted with Fusion GPS, and Steele asserted he was not aware the Clinton campaign was the recipient of his research until months after he contracted with Fusion GPS.

In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. DNC officials denied knowing their attorney had contracted with Fusion GPS, and Steele asserted he was not aware the Clinton campaign was the recipient of his research until months after he contracted with Fusion GPS.

While compiling the dossier, Steele passed some of his findings to both British and American intelligence services

So, the Democrats had an involvement with Fusion to get opposition research (this is pretty normal stuff). They didn't go to Steele himself, and they had no involvement in Steel handing some of his research to the authorities. They also had no involvement in what the authorities choose to do with that information.

But also, Crossfire Hurricane had already begun, without the Steel dosier.
Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation) - Wikipedia
The investigation was officially opened on July 31, 2016, initially due to information on Trump campaign member George Papadopoulos's early assertions of Russians having damaging material on Donald Trump's rival candidate Hillary Clinton.

Mueller concluded that Russian interference occurred in a "sweeping and systematic fashion" and that there were substantial links with the Trump campaign
but the evidence available to investigators did not establish that the Trump campaign had "conspired or coordinated" with the Russian government.

So whilst the Steele dossier played a role in the investigations, it did not contribute to the origins of the investigation. It only contributed to getting an electronic surveillance of Cater Page, This electronic surveillance did not bear any fruit for the investigation, hence we can conclude that the Steele Dosier was ultimately unimportant in the investigation. (more of a distraction).
The Democrats were not involved in the investigation, they had no pat in Steele going to the authorities with this information and they had no part in what the authorities chose to do with the information.