Donald Trump’s election in 2016 was widely seen as a rebuke of globalization, immigration and free trade.

This year, those issues barely registered. They were largely absent from Mr. Trump’s campaign speeches and ads, and didn’t rate among voters’ most important issues, according to exit polls.

Yet this doesn’t mean 2016 was an aberration…

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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