Transition

The General Services Administration has finally acknowledged the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and released the funds for Joe Biden's transition team to begin their work.

I won't quite say that this delay is unprecedented -- George W. Bush's transition wasn't authorized by the GSA until mid-December 2000 -- but in 2000 the outcome of the election was legitimately in doubt, with everything coming down to a single state and three-figure vote margin. To put it lightly, this is not the situation in 2020. I'm glad to see it, but it's criminal that it took so long. (Maybe literally? Probably not, alas.)

I really wonder what's going on behind the scenes at the White House. Is the soon-to-be-ex-president finally accepting reality? Or did the rest of the administration decide to move on, potential tantrums be damned? What I wouldn't give to be a fly on that wall.

Anyway, good news, for the president-elect and for the rest of us.