Binyamin Appelbaum
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first heard Feb 2026
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And that may be enough to prevail in the midterms, to be clear.
But going forward, they need to start articulating answers to those questions.
That, to me, is the singular challenge confronting the Democratic Party right now.
It absolutely does, and I think it raises a really important point, which is that for all of the focus on trade, and there have been some political efforts to address the impact of trade.
Biden tried, and why he failed is perhaps a rich subject for a whole different show, but he tried.
Trump is trying.
They're not even the first.
What we have very rarely seen any political effort to address is what is actually a bigger part of the story, which is automation.
If you look at what actually reduced employment in the manufacturing sector, trade is the smaller part of that story.
Over time, what really did it was automation.
And as you point out, we are about to enter a whole new chapter in that story where a much wider swath of jobs are potentially at risk of being automated by artificial intelligence.
And we still don't have any coherent policy conversation about how we as a society, as a polity, as a government ought to be helping workers who are facing that disruption, helping an economy that is facing those transitions.
So that is really the looming question to me is like, yes, we have failed really to have a successful political conversation around trade, but that's never even been the biggest thing we need to address.
The biggest thing we need to address is this automation conversation, which is really, for the most part, still not a part of the mainstream political conversation.
I mean, that's just 100% correct.
And visiting a modern factory floor is an experience that I think is really valuable and that people should seize if they have the opportunity.
Because what a modern factory floor looks like is it's a very clean space with very few people in it and whirring machines quietly producing the things that we need.
And the idea that manufacturing is ever again going to be a major employment center is just very hard to take seriously.
I hesitate to join the ranks of people making predictions about where all this AI stuff is going, but I do think that we as a society need to be grappling with those risks, figuring out frameworks for how we think about AI displacing jobs.
One way of thinking about the role of government economically is that it gets to regulate the pace of change.
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