So easy to just say 'the Muslim ban is over' and leave it at that. But most people have no idea of the scale of human suffering repaired by doing so.

Countless people of Middle Eastern origin who had built lives in the US were unable to see their families. They couldn't come to see them and if they left they had no idea whether they'd be able to get back into America.

It's over now. But they had no way of knowing Biden would win. If it had been Trump, the situation would have continued for another four years. Perhaps it would never have changed.

That uncertainty would have been pulverising - left completely alone, your family and loved ones slipping away from you because of an explicitly racist policy which was based on where you come from rather than your individual risk factor.

That policy was an outrage, no matter how much they tried to dress it up. But just like Trump - and Bannon for that matter - predicted, the outrage would eventually fall silent as they went on to other outrages.

Now it is over. You can have a political analysis of that, and quite right too. But you should also have one based on humanity. Thank God. Thank God those people will be able to see their families again.