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Why Lou Dobbs Is Winning

Problems with Current Approach to Free Trade

Author: Anne Kim, John Lageson, and Jim Kessler
In The Middle Class Program

Abstract

Why trade advocates need to change both what they argue and how they argue on trade to communicate more effectively with the American public on the benefits of trade.

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“Why Lou Dobbs Is Winning” analyzes the origins of the burgeoning anti-trade sentiment in the United States. It examines the growth of neopopulism and protectionism in progressive politics, and it lays out three main reasons why advocates of free trade are failing:

• A failure of vision

• Values trump data

• An anxious middle-class

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