How Joe Biden Is Positioning Himself as a Modern FDR

He ran for President at a time of record unemployment and economic despair, with democracy itself in apparent retreat around the globe. He overcame tremendous personal hardship and promised to heal a battered nation. His friends thought of him as a unifier; his enemies called him a socialist.

If this sounds to you like Joe Biden, you’d be right. If this sounds like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, you’d also be right.

With just a week before the election, Biden traveled to Warm Springs, Ga., Tuesday to deliver a speech on national...