For decades, it was a given in American news media and political leadership that those who held power, upon the selection of new leaders, would give up their positions. Until 2020, the American presidency had an unbroken string of over 225 years of transferring power peacefully. Despite personality or political party, the outgoing president always left the stage, to give way to a new person at the top. But in 2020, David Marchick watched, flabbergasted, as the work he tried to foster as a conduit between the outgoing Trump Administration and the incoming Biden Administration, was undone by the personality and power of one man. There was blood in America's sacred Capitol. We talked with seasoned political operative David Marchick about his new book, "The Peaceful Transfer of Power," about the oral history he has compiled, as well as advice he has to make sure what happened between the election of 2020 and Inauguration Day of 2021 never happens again.

Dean David Marchick is on social media at https://twitter.com/deanmarchick

His website at American University can be found at https://www.american.edu/profiles/staff/dmarchick.cfm

Information on his book from the University of Virginia Press can be found at https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5816/

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