President-elect Trump and Elon Musk, whom Trump has asked to reform our broken tax and spending system that has resulted in a $36 trillion debt, have a rare opportunity. With all three branches of government under Republican control, Trump and Musk should simultaneously address the debt, including the size and cost of government, and also the way we collect taxes.

Prepare to toss the common peace negotiation recipes, ceasefire artifices and usual foreign policy nostrums out the window.

Donald Trump assembled the biggest, most diverse GOP coalition in decades while running further to the right on immigration, crime and the culture than perhaps any major-party presidential candidate in U.S. history.

Donald Trump’s rallies had rows of empty seats toward the end, and his favorability ratings never rose above dismal. It wasn’t that Trump was so beloved, apart from his MAGA cult. It was that Democrats fell apart with lousy messaging.

According to numbers compiled by the Media Research Center, coverage of Harris was 78% positive and only 22% negative, while the numbers for Trump were the reverse, 15% positive and 85% negative.

Democrats should pick and choose their battles. They should cooperate on matters of mutual interest. Obstructing for obstruction’s sake would be bad for the party and bad for America.

The Democrats have a lot to learn from this defeat that should never have been, and the first lesson is to stop taking voters for granted.

The first Trump administration gave the world the Nobel Prize-worthy Abraham Accords, an extraordinarily inventive and initially productive diplomatic framework for normalizing relations between Israel and key Arab states.

Donald Trump’s attempted coup d’etat alone should have made this a cakewalk for Kamala Harris. Her move to the center couldn’t survive the mountain of lies and fear-mongering that non-rich Trump supporters believed and may come to regret.