Mainstream WeeklySo, Donald Trump has returned to the White House as the 47th President of the United States of America. He is the only second American, who has won two non-consecutive terms. In the end, the result was not as close as it was predicted. Trump registered an emphatic win by securing a majority in the Electoral College as well as in popular votes. All the seven swing States tilted, rather decisively, in favour of Trump in drastic contrast to the 2020 election in which six out of the seven States voted in favour of Joe Biden.
It is a stunning and astonishing comeback, or as newly elected Veep, J.D. Vance has said, one of the greatest political comebacks in American history. The victory of Trump is more resounding than his first win in 2016 against Hilary Clinton in which he lost popular votes by more than three Millions.
So, like in 2016, the glass ceiling could not be broken and women could not occupy the White House. In fact, the diametrically opposite has happened, as an incorrigible misogynist has won the race for the White House.
In some sense, an unambiguous verdict in favour of Trump has spared the Supreme Court from entering into a political thicket. It was widely believed that US judiciary, right from the Court of First Instance to the Supreme Court, would be flooded with lawsuits and election petitions in the event of Kamala Harris leading by a razor-thin majority. Therefore, an unequivocally clear result in favour of Trump is a great relief for the American judiciary, especially the US Supreme Court. Any eventuality of getting embroiled in polarized politics would have eroded the credibility of the Supreme Court, as happened in the case of Albert Gore vs. Bush Jr. in 2000.
The result of the 2024 presidential election is an unmistakable pointer to the ascendency of right-wing politics