© Demetrius Freeman

The Republican Donald Trump returns to the White House – which he occupied from 2017 to 2021 – after defeating the Democrat aspirant Kamala Harris in extremely neck-and-neck presidential elections that have laid bare the ideological division of the United States. The incumbent Vice President, who took up the ticket for the Oval Office after President Joe Biden was forced to drop out of the bid for reelection, has like Hillary Clinton before her smashed against the glass ceiling that has prevented women from becoming commander-in-chief of the world’s no. 1 power. But in her case the glass is like the mirror behind which, as in Focho’s cartoon, Alice in Wonderland finds an angry Humpty Dumpty who, spewing slurs, has managed to grab the contested cake at stake.