If the joyous celebrations taking place on the streets of American cities on Saturday are any indication, Americans can now breathe a sigh of relief knowing that a “normal” politician now occupies the highest office.

Americans have all the more reason to celebrate over the weekend given the fact that president-elect Joe Biden is a decent man known for his honesty and integrity. “Sometimes…the good guys win,” sci-fi author Stephen King wrote in his tweet over the weekend.

Americans were not the only ones celebrating Biden’s victory. Soon after television networks announced that Biden won the state of Pennsylvania and Nevada on Saturday morning, bagging 26 Electoral College votes and bringing his total to 279, a huge collective sigh of relief could be heard from all corners of the globe.

After four years of nightmare, starting this week a large portion of the world’s population will wake up to a semblance of normalcy and soon after, on Jan. 20, 2021, when Joe Biden sits at the White House, we can be sure that not every The New York Times headline and CNN chyron will report of a fresh scandal.

Even for non-Americans, Trump’s rhetoric and actions have been a cause for concern.

Early in his administration, soon after Trump made his threat that he would unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangered the United States, even people here in Southeast Asia began assessing the real possibility of a nuclear winter.

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