After four tortuous years, the free world can breath again. Good people have put up with insults, demeaning behaviour, arrogance, outright lying and incompetence. It has been a daily affair for the totality of those forty-six months (there are still two to go) and such has been the onslaught that truth and falsehood entered a twilight zone where it became difficult to distinguish one from the other.

It is not really a loss for the Republican Party though. They have done well enough in Congress and in the state races to feel quite satisfied. And they have gotten rid of the ogre at the top of the ticket. Biden's win, however, may well end up being pyrrhic in nature, for his administration could well be stymied by a hostile Senate.

But even so, there is a kind of moral victory abroad today, one in which the tone in the White House will change and something like normality will ensue beyond January 20th. Sure, Biden is an old white male, but then, what was the alternative, this time round.