Anger and fear have greeted the return to power of former US strongman, Donald Trump, a corrupt far-white extremist coup plotter who is also a convicted felon and rapist, following a shock presidential election result. Ethnic tensions have been on the rise with members of the historically oppressed minority Black ethnic group reporting receiving threatening text messages, warning of a return to an era of enslavement. In a startling editorial, the tension-wracked country’s paper of record, The New York Times, declared that the country had made “a perilous choice” and that its fragile democracy is now on “a precarious course”.

Trump’s victory marks the second time in eight years the extremist leader, who is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using campaign funds to pay off a porn star he had cheated on his wife with, has defeated a female opponent from the ruling Democratic Party. Women continue to struggle to reach the highest office in the deeply conservative nation where their rights are increasingly under attack and child marriage is widespread.

This has prompted traumatised supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris, who had been handpicked to replace the unpopular, ageing incumbent, Joe........

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