Trump is reshaping U.S. trade policy, but not at the scale he long promised

“Even if you believe, as I do, that trade is part of the problem, renegotiating trade agreements isn’t really going to fix it,” said Edward Alden, author of “Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy” and a professor at Western Washington University. “He vastly over-promised in terms of the benefits the tougher stance on trade could bring. These tactics have not come close to delivering the results he promised.”