If health insurance companies are to remain the intermediary between our healthcare delivery system and the patients they serve, they should be tightly regulated entities that facilitate, not complicate, the process of delivering the care patients pay for and deserve. We need to develop a system that rewards the provision of quality care, not the withholding of it.

Let’s dust off the good old idea of immigration reform that gives legal status to many undocumented migrants who have set down deep roots in this country — but stops illegal immigration in the future. Such legislation had gone far with bipartisan support but was killed by right-wingers opposed to anything resembling amnesty for lawbreakers.

This is not to say that Trump is an anodyne centrist. His zeal for tariffs and apparent determination to retake the Panama Canal are hardly consensus positions, and he didn’t mention his imminent Jan. 6 pardons in his address. No matter how much momentum Trump has now, controversies will pile up and events will take a hand. The current goodwill could prove quite transitory.

The latest flood of pardons can only deepen the cynicism so many have about Washington.

The common issue: Lack of surveillance (recon assets) to patrol infrastructure and fishing grounds. The Coast Guard needs more sea eyes.