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.

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.

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.

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.