This is an important thread. I don’t think I agree with Matt that this election will be about China. It will be about the pandemic. But one of the most obvious trends in polling on economic issues is that “foreign trade” gets unpopular in recessions. https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1259525862023725063

Liberal/left democrats have traditionally opposed the 1990a era of globalization and its institutions on human rights / labor rights grounds. But Trump embracing tariffs has scrambled a lot of this. And many Democrats are embracing the 1990s version of “free trade” in response.

I like internationalism, but I do not like 1990s-style globalization. Neither one is popular in a recession, for better or for worse. And I think it will be a serious political mistake for Democrats to even symbolically align themselves with the WTO in 2020.