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

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 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.

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.

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