Trump Is Getting Squeezed, Left and Right

As Joe Biden steals his thunder on economics, a Republican Party he transformed makes him seem superfluous.

Donald Trump is running for president in 2024. In 2015 and 2016, we knew why. He was the candidate offering a completely different vision. He was attuned to America’s darkened mood: “I will gladly accept the mantle of anger,” he proclaimed in one memorable debate exchange. He offered economic nationalism and competition with China as a corrective to a Clinton–Bush–Obama consensus on free trade with the third world. He offered a different foreign policy,...