Social media activist Thamer al-Dakheel Bourashed puts his laptop in his suitcase at Kuwait airport before boarding a flight to the US, which in March banned fliers from the Middle East from carrying large electronics on board. Pic/AFP

After reaching New York on Friday night, the next morning I met Emory A, a high school chum I hadn't seen in over 35 years, and we drove north to New Hampshire via Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. During those almost five hours there wasn't a single car on the highways with a 'Trump' bumper sticker. Unlike India, the USA is where people proudly proclaim their nationalism (or their individualism) via bumper stickers. It's less than six months since this polarised nation had an election that surprised even the winners, so to see no Trump bumper stickers, even before President Donald Trump spent three months in office, is noteworthy. Emory explained it as Trumpland experiencing buyer's remorse. Perhaps this is true; but it seems that the changes Trump eventually leaves behind will endure.