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After the November election, Republican officeholders will face a decision: Stand up to Mr. Trump or concede and allow themselves to be branded the antitrade party.

If Mr. Trump chooses Christopher Liddell for the job, he’ll be elevating a former corporate executive without strong free-market views who is unlikely to counter the growing clout of the antitrade corporatists in the Administration.

Still, the antitrade talk currently streaming out of the White House is unsettling.

To wit, the President-elect has assembled the most antitrade team of presidential policy advisers since the 1920s.

But he said that “the Republicans may get sidetracked by antitrade rhetoric.”