Four years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a joint session of Congress convened on Monday to certify Donald Trump's electoral victory in the 2024 election.

With Vice President Kamala Harris presiding, Congress gave Trump the civil transfer of power he denied President Joe Biden following the 2020 election. Instead, a violent mob stormed the Capitol following Trump's insistence the election was somehow stolen from him.

Most Americans probably haven’t thought about it, but we've reached a point where having a peaceful power transfer is a big thing. I have plenty of negative things to say about Democrats and their actions over the past four years, but they conducted themselves properly after losing the election. We need more of that.

It's shameful that turbulence, or its expectation, is now common whenever we change administrations.

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