You know what bothers me about these new-breed protectionists? It’s not that their solutions would leave everyone poorer, especially the blue-collar workers whom they eulogize from the outside. It’s not their belief that they have a monopoly on patriotism. It’s not even their stubborn aversion to data — specifically, to the evidence that lowering trade barriers has done more for the poor than any other policy in human history.

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