Warren's 'Economic Patriotism' Plan Beats Trump at His Own Game

Elizabeth Warren's latest policy plan reads like a work of speculative fiction written off the prompt: What would Donald Trump's economic agenda look like if he actually cared about working-class decline, believed in climate change, and could read multi-page documents?

In “A Plan for Economic Patriotism,” Warren rattles off a list of quite Trumpy complaints about the state of the U.S. economy. The senator is sick and tired of American companies that “have no loyalty or allegiance” to the country they were born in. “These ‘American' companies show only one real loyalty: to the short-term interests of their shareholders, a third of whom are foreign investors,” Warren writes. “If they can close up an American factory and ship jobs overseas to save a nickel, that's exactly what they will do — abandoning loyal American workers and hollowing out American cities along the way.”