of free trade because I don’t think most of the Democrats would impose tariffs, quotas, and the like across the board; they’ll just oppose further trade liberalization and impose some trade barriers opportunistically, against a backdrop of generally free trade. I think this is probably what we have to look forward to on trade for the next few years: not so much backsliding on trade as a lack of progress on liberalization. But stalling could end up being the first step toward backsliding.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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