Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, to Global Trade
There&#x27;s no doubt that free trade is a big net positive for the US.  But one of the major oversights of the last few decades of public policy is the failure to reallocate some of the net benefits of free trade more directly to the losers, e.g. lower middle class working people in the US.  Maybe they figured these people would never organize or vote in serious numbers.  Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump might prove otherwise.