While the President-elect is not expected to bring about a transformational change in the United States or to have a radical impact on the world, sanity, decency and logic in national and global affairs would prevail. Many national leaders including those of South Asia had started emulating his behaviour as though this was the norm. The most damaging aspect of it was that national politics was getting more polarised and confrontational, destroying the very essence of democratic ethos. With all its shortcomings globalisation has been a blessing for the world at large and developing nations in particular. The re-election of Trump would have emboldened regional leaders to suppress the opposition parties and move toward a one-party system.

Source: The Express Tribune November 11, 2020 03:33 UTC