India, Nov. 5 -- For 20 months, Donald Trump's presidency was marked by a deliberate, visible, and structured assault on America's system of checks and balances. On Tuesday, American voters struck back and re-established the democratic equilibrium in America.

Trump interpreted the 2024 presidential mandate as a blank cheque to concentrate power. He then used that centralised power to implement the most extreme version of his ideological agenda. Trump scaled down America's welfare system, deployed the American military for wars on Israel's prodding, altered how Americans traded with the world, dismantled parts of the American federal government, backed the ambitions of American big tech, made life dramatically difficult for immigrants (in...