By Ikechukwu Amaechi
It was, to borrow former U.S. President Barack Obama’s word, a “shellacking” for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Tuesday – a damning verdict on his presidency.
On November 3, 2010, Obama, the then U.S. President, famously used the word during a White House press conference to describe his party’s heavy losses in the midterm elections. In what many considered as “a rare display of vulnerability,” Obama not only spoke openly about the Democratic Party’s drubbing, but also took responsibility for the “humbling” losses in an election that was a referendum on his then two-year presidency. But his experience was not peculiar.
