By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

I admit to being a bit naive on an issue we are witnessing in real time.

I thought it was possible — and I said so publicly on this blog — that Donald Trump would accept the results of an election even if Joe Biden would win. I thought there was a chance he would concede and would leave office with relative calm.

It isn’t playing out that way, so far.

President-elect Biden defeated Trump, who then said he would fight the results in court, that he would seek to reverse the results of an election that Biden won fair and square. Trump hasn’t conceded anything. He has refused to accept the result.

Meanwhile, the president-elect will proceed with the transition without any cooperation from the man he will succeed in the White House.

Trump came into office vowing to be an  unconventional president. His entry into politics defied political convention. His first statements as a candidate denigrated Mexicans as rapists, murderers and drug dealers. It went downhill from there … if you can believe it.

Trump’s time as president was a study in chaos and confusion. More unconventional behavior produced equally unconventional governance.

Now he is going to exit the office. At this moment he hasn’t yet indicated if he ever will accept the result, that he lost the actual vote by 5 million ballots and lost the Electoral College vote in numbers that mirror the “landslide” he said he scored against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The good news? It is that Trump is slipping further into irrelevance.