Trump is selling snake oil to the Rust Belt

Trump is selling snake oil to the Rust Belt

President Trump speaks during a meeting with manufacturing executives at the White House. (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg) President Trump boasts that his “America First” trade and economic policies are bringing well-paid manufacturing jobs back to America. That’s probably his biggest “deliverable” to Trump voters. But is this claim true?

Trump won the presidency partly because he voiced the anger of American workers about lost jobs and stagnant wages. But in the process, he fundamentally misled the country by claiming that trade is the major cause of job losses, and that renegotiating trade agreements would save the middle class.

What Trump is offering is […]

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