Elizabeth Warren is building the future of progressive trade policy

It's the clear alternative the left has been waiting for

Elizabeth Warren.
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The question of trade and globalization often throws the left for a loop. Democrats tend to be split between the pro-trade elite consensus, and the hardscrabble skepticism of big trade deals epitomized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). What the latter group has lacked is a clear alternative to the elite consensus. Meanwhile, President Trump has complicated things further by adopting much of the anti-trade left's rhetoric and turning it into a badge of right-wing ideology.

Now, as she campaigns for the Democrats' 2020 presidential nomination, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has stepped into the breach.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.