New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- Neither red nor blue states, he believes in the United States of America, says President-Elect Joe Biden. If only it could be that simple in a sharply polarized and divided America, even while the bad faith and dark shadow of a 'sexist, racist, misogynist, white supremacist, capitalist' like Donald Trump seems to be lingering and looming large across the vast emptiness of the American countryside, which has overwhelmingly voted for the incumbent president. Post-Trump, certainly, the unhappy aftermath and the bad taste of his presidency is not going to evaporate so easily. It will stay, like a bad hangover or the deathly virus of Covid19 pandemic, which is killing tens of thousands of cases every day.

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