As Trump has taken over the party of Reagan … several high-profile officials have had an opportunity to do the right thing. But they let the opportunity pass.

The great advances in treatment notwithstanding, the word “cancer” remains scary. Wouldn’t Catherine, Princess of Wales, be doing us all a service by using her royal microphone to calm some of the fears surrounding the diagnosis — and sweep away the shame too often wrongly attached to it?

The world is full of Ronna McDaniels, amoral individuals out for power and money with no concern for the greater good. To snag an estimated $300,000-a-year gig with a big TV presence, she was willing to publicly state that the voters indeed chose Joe Biden as president. She didn’t even bother denying that she knew that the stolen election business was baloney from the start.

Trump doesn’t have enough money to pay what he owes.

Does anyone seriously think America’s enemies would not be encouraged by the Sept. 11, 2001 attack and the Moscow atrocity to conduct a repeat operation in America? With such easy access to the country and with so many fanatical beliefs floating around the world, what would deter them?

The belief that work is basically a capitalist imposition that is unnatural and bad for people still holds sway on the left, and Bernie Sanders is, accordingly, proposing to move from a 40-hour to a 32-hour workweek to make us healthy, wealthy and wise.

It’s time to revive American manufacturing with “little guy” innovation and insistence on quality.

Declaring winners in the bookshelf wealth debate is of no consequence, even to the winners. Everyone does what they want with their bookshelves. That’s as it should be.

Abortion is a moral, medical, and political issue. Republicans can fight back on all three levels because they hold the high ground on each one.

Whatever the status or our polarization, the two paths to reducing it, or at least to reducing its crippling effects, come down to us. The voters. Especially to us who call ourselves moderate.