President-elect Donald Trump rallied angry voters by blaming trade for the loss of high-quality jobs. That was hardly an original observation. In fact, Trump’s predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama, made a similar case back in 2010. Obama’s pitch was different than Trump’s, focused on fixing shortfalls in the nation’s trading relationships instead of tearing up free-trade deals and starting over. Specifically, Obama called in his 2010 State of the Union speech for doubling exports by the end of 2014. This, he said, would create 2 million jobs, and they’d mostly be good-paying jobs in manufacturing. In other words, it might make America great again.
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