It’s Trump’s Economy Now and Americans Don’t Seem to Love It

President Donald Trump has been back in office long enough for Americans to expect at least glimmers of the economic golden age he promised. Instead, warning signals are flashing.

They’re now coming from voters as well as from the patchy data available during a record-long government shutdown. The economy is expanding, but reliance on the artificial intelligence boom — and the stock-market wealth it’s generated — makes growth look lopsided.

Democrats trounced Trump’s Republicans last week in elections where cost-of-living anxieties loomed large. Half of the respondents in an October survey by the Harris Poll for ...