The landslide victory of candidates of the Democratic party in the US to the Senate and House of Representatives of American Congress and to office of the governors of several states is a victory for social and cultural diversity which President Donald Trump despised and relentlessly tried to roll back. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes in the US faced fury from the Trump administration.Theodore R. Johnson, in his illuminating article, “The South Delivered a Knock Out Blow to the GOP,” published in the Washington Post on November 5, 2026, referred to the election of Hakeem Jeffries to the House of Representatives to become the first Black speaker of the House.“It’s,” he asserted “a national repudiation of MAGA’s anti-DEI overreach and scapegoating as well as a rejection of Trump and his attempt to distract from corruption and poor governance.”Celebration of diversityThe authentic celebration of social, cultural and racial diversity in the midterm election outcome in favour of the Democratic Party has been a triumph of the true national spirit of the US which is a country of immigrants. They truly represent a variety of faiths, races, ethnicities and cultures which continuously contribute to shape the US melting pot.Gina Hinojosa of Democratic Party is the first Latina lady who has been elected as governor of Texas, defeating the high-profile, Trump-backed Republican incumbent, Greg Abbott. Democratic Party candidate Abdul El Sayed created history in the US for being the first ever Muslim senator after he swept the Michigan race. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire scripted history for having been the first gay person to have been elected to the Senate. All these examples capturing the wide-spectrum diversities of American society is a thumping rejection of Trump’s use of the US state apparatus to erase diversities.Annals of US history show that so far only three Blacks had the distinction of getting elected as governors. In this midterm elections, in which President Trump and his Republican party suffered massive electoral debacle, five states (Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada and Wisconsin) elected Black governors. Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman in US history to win a gubernatorial race. Byron Donalds is the first Black Republican ever elected governor in Florida. There will also be six Black senators in the next Congress – the most ever – from Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina – and depending on the outcome of Mississippi’s race, which remains too close to call, that number could reach seven. Barack Obama was elected as senator representing Illinois in 2004 and with that win he had the privilege of becoming the fifth Black senator in American history.The election of so many black candidates to the Senate, House of Representatives and gubernatorial positions during Trump’s second term as US President underlined people’s rejection of his policies to reverse DEI programmes.Regressive ideas of HegsethNobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee in an interaction with Prannoy Roy said that US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth wanted to take away the women’s right to vote on the ground that they have no capability to rationally exercise their franchise.On August 9, 2025 the Guardian carried a report titled, “Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” It also quoted the progressive evangelical groups who charged that such repressive ideas shared by pastors and amplified by Hegseth are ‘very disturbing.’He removed several women and Blacks occupying high positions in defence forces and faced charges that Hegseth took such decisions to target them primarily because of their racial or gender identities.The regressive attempts by top leadership of the Trump administration to subject women and blacks to discriminatory treatment and wipe out their legitimate roles in the larger arena of public life is part of the pattern to strike a death blow to the culture of diversity which defines the US society and nation.Therefore, the record number of Blacks getting elected to the Senate and Congress as Democratic candidates and the victory of Gina Hinojosa to the post of governor testify to the voters’ rejection of the exclusionary vision that Trump nursed to push ahead his vision based on MAGA.Report on one AmericaIt is salutary to note that the extraordinary results of the midterm poll in the US marking the thumping victory of Blacks, Muslims, an indigenous person, Latina lady and a gay candidate is evocative of the vision outlined in a report titled “One America in the Twenty First Century : Forging a New Future.”The report was submitted in September 1998 to the then President Bill Clinton in response to his initiative to build one America in the 21st century for people of all races. In its executive summary, it, while articulating a profound vision, remarked,“America’s greatest promise in the 21st century lies in our ability to harness the strength of our racial diversity. The greatest challenge facing Americans is to accept and take pride in defining ourselves as a multiracial democracy. At the end of the 20th century, America emerged as the worldwide symbol of opportunity and freedom through leadership that constantly strives to give meaning to democracy’s fundamental principles. These principles – justice, opportunity, equality, and racial inclusion – must continue to guide the planning for our future.”The electoral process of midterm polls in the USA securing victories for candidates from a wide variety of social and racial backgrounds testify to the idea of “One America” tip-toed to harness the strength of our racial diversity.Human Development Report on diversitySix years after that report was submitted, in 2004, the UNDP’s Human Development Report on the theme “Cultural Liberty in today’s Diverse World” persuasively made a case “…for respecting diversity and building more inclusive societies by adopting policies that explicitly recognise cultural differences – multicultural policies.”It referred to the rich tradition of African American music – with its African lineage and American evolution – and stated that it “….not only helped to enhance the cultural freedom and self-respect of African Americans, but has also expanded the cultural options of all people (African American or not) and enriched the cultural landscape of America, and indeed the world.”The victory of so many candidates, from diverse racial grounds in the US midterm elections testifies to the strength of diversities as a source of unity and cultural liberty. People of America voting for so many Blacks and other people from different racial backgrounds testified to the enduring significance of DEI which Trump wanted to push back.S.N. Sahu served as Officer on Special Duty to President of India K.R. Narayanan.