Joe Biden victory unlikely to heal deep political wounds afflicting US

Joe Biden has now secured the requisite number of electoral college votes to emerge as the winner in the US presidential elections.
 

How much will a change at the White House herald an opportunity for the US to overcome the deeply conflicted American polity? Was Trump one of a kind aberration whose impact will begin to fade away as a new Democratic administration takes charge? Or was he merely good at exploiting the ingrained societal faultlines which have surfaced in an era of declining economic opportunity and rising inequalities? How much political agency will a new President have if the