The resounding rebuke of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in both chambers of the US Congress in the November 3 midterm elections will buoy millions who back the groundswell of popular protests around the world.

As the Democrats wrested control over the upper chamber of the Congress after four years, a spectacular moment to savour for a nation with a rich ethnic and cultural diversity was the election of the first Black governor of Nevada, Aaron D. Ford, and that of Abdul El-Sayed as the first Muslim member of the US Senate from Michigan.

It was ironic that President Trump, in his infamous anti-Muslim tirade, had called the physician and epidemiologist a ‘jihadist lunatic’ and sneered that Congress would have to install a special metal detector in case he were........

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