Trump said it is “time to put the divisions of the last four years behind us.” One hopes that wish comes true. It can start with a promise to cease name-calling. Both sides must make that promise and keep it. Policy is paramount, and success will bring more unity than disparaging fellow Americans.

So much is better now, but sadly, Americans have been spun to feel perpetually cheated, to feel they’re getting a bad deal. For so many, this land of plenty has turned into the land of discontent.

The Republican bench is deep, and while four years is forever in politics, pundits like me are already thinking about the next election.

The legacy media will avoid taking any credit for a Trump defeat, of course, since they are so invested in the notion of their own objectivity — in fact, they will deny that they were anything but rigorously fair-minded and professional.

Unity is a chimera and cliche that Harris is regurgitating in the absence of anything more compelling.

Call me old-fashioned, but I long for the days when candidates spoke not only to their loyal base but also those less ideologically committed to either party.

We need leaders who are willing to hold themselves accountable to the people over whom they govern instead of looking only for avenues through which they can dodge accountability.

Government doesn’t solve many problems, or as former President Ronald Reagan often said, “government is the problem.”

Free trade? I’m all for free and fair trade. But national security comes first.