Even After Hostile Elections, the Outgoing President Usually Welcomes the Newly Elected With Dignity

Not in 2021. Here’s a look at the traditions that were missed.

(President-elect Obama with former Presidents Bush (41), Carter and Clinton and current President Bush) Image by: Pete Souza, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Though there were some contentious presidential transitions in America’s past; in modern times the power transfer has followed a predictable and civil pattern. Election season may get nasty…