The Democrats reliably back the color "beige" as a candidate. Obama was different, and he won back to back. Biden succeeded, barely, because Trump was fresh in everyone's mind. But for some reason the Democrats have been allergic to charisma for far too long.

Voting in the US, it feels like I am forced to choose between evil and incompetence.

Your description sounds more like evil vs boring, which is an easy choice for me.

And frankly I’ll vote for incompetence over evil too. Because, y’know, evil.