Joel Kotkin: Trump is Right to Take on the Free Trade Fundamentalists

There are a lot of loose parts in this argument, but I'm generally sympathetic. But, again, I'm not an economist and I realize that my half-assed, largely intuitive position on this is largely worthless. If you gave me a chance to determine policy by pushing a button, I'd have to go with what I take to be the consensus of economists--that Trump's policy isn't smart. Nevertheless, I have to say, the specific arguments I've read from that side haven't struck me as all that strong.