President Biden’s inauguration was as much about what didn’t happen as what did

This appeared in The Millennial Source

In the end, the inauguration ceremony, which was closed to the public due to COVID-19 restrictions, went off without a hitch.

On January 20, 2021, at 12 p.m. EST, the presidency of Donald Trump ended and Joe Biden officially became the president of the United States. As many noted on the day — including former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — the inauguration ceremony is as much about celebrating a peaceful transfer of power as it is swearing in a new president.

While Inauguration Day was the conclusion of an election process that dragged on longer than usual, for millions of Americans it was supposed to be something else entirely. Dedicated Republicans who had been led to believe the election was stolen, as well as adherents to the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, were holding out hope that Trump, through some turn of events, would hold onto power.

In the end, the inauguration ceremony, which was closed to the public due to COVID-19 restrictions, went off without a hitch. There were no attacks on Washington, DC, a serious concern after the January 6 coup attempt at the US Capitol. And, in the end, the predictions that Biden and his fellow Democrats were walking into a…