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Phrase: (Fall) out of favour
It’s over!
I’m sure the world breathed a sigh of relief the moment the victor of the American election was announced.
It’s not so much that Trump fell out of favour but that we were all waiting on tenterhooks, and the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
I’ve never seen the vote count for such a critical election drag on for such an extended period.
Honestly, though, I was super disappointed when I woke up on Sunday morning and saw the headline ‘Biden Beats Trump’ splashed across the New York Times homepage.
It’s not that I dislike Biden; I’m happy he won.
I was disappointed because it happened while I was asleep!
I wanted to see it as it happened.
When someone falls out of favour, they lose approval or acceptance.
Donald Trump and his style of politics have not fallen out of favour in the United States of America.
They have become stronger because more people cast a vote for Trump in 2020 than in the 2016 election.
This election went down to the wire.
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Yes, Biden and Harris are the winners, but the real result is an America even more divided than ever.
The fact that millions of Trump voters refuse to accept the result is evidence of this division.
People danced in the street and thanked God for a Biden victory, but Trump’s brand of politics supported by the mainstream Republican Party has not fallen out of favour – not in any way.
All we non-Americans can hope is this politics of hate and division, of Americans against Americans, will fall out of favour soon for their sake as well as ours.
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