A Green New Trade Policy

Neoliberal free trade agreements in the 90’s dealt a crushing blow to the working class. The Left should learn the lessons of that period and support targeted tariffs paired with other industrial policies.

With Donald Trump soon to be in the White House, tariffs are now back in the news. There are several weeks until inauguration, but Trump has already been brandishing the threat of tariffs to everyone from geopolitical rivals like China to close neighbors like Canada and Mexico. Yet despite the current association of tariffs with Trump, the Left shouldn’…