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The United States is currently facing a series of economic challenges, including a trade deficit of trillions of dollars, a decline in manufacturing productivity, and an opioid crisis affecting millions. These issues are interconnected and reflect failures in an economic model that is overly dependent on free trade. For decades, it has been believed that free trade would bring universal benefits, but is this model really working? Oren Cass, former policy director for Mitt Romney, argues that the "free trade" mindset is relatively new, emerging only in the late 20th century.