Exactly when Washington soured for good on free trade is an open question. Maybe it was in 2008 under George W. Bush, when the United States couldn’t prevent India from blowing up the Doha global trade negotiations. Or maybe it was 2016, when both presidential candidates opposed the Trans Pacific Partnership , a last gasp effort by the departing Obama administration to create a free-trade pact in Asia. Whenever the shift happened, we are clearly in a post-free trade era where economic