Some traditions count as too precious to sacrifice for the sake of partisan posturing.

Looking ahead to Inauguration Day less than two months from now, activists on both sides seem ready to use the occasion to exalt or insult the departing, defeated incumbent, Donald Trump.

To do so would disregard the practice of more than two centuries in which presidential inaugurations have served to heal party-based polarization and to affirm our underlying unity… Read the full column at Newsweek.com.