Having launched a new bid for the White House, Donald Trump has not been met with the zeal he had been expecting for. Quite the opposite, in fact. “In all, it has been a truly terrible launch of a presidential campaign,” said Lara Brown, a political science professor at George Washington University, noting that the one-term former US president has stumbled through “one scandal after another.” Having hoped to ride a Republican “red wave” in the midterm elections last month, Trump instead found himself high and dry after most of the noteworthy candidates he backed were defeated. Spurned by conservative...