"Of course, we have to take care of those who are hurt, but the biggest threat now is unmerited pessimism itself"

Can a columnist for The New York Times actually convince the Trump anti-Trade Agreement supporters or even the former Bernie anti-Trade Agreement supporters that he really cares about them?

Much less that he isn't just a shill for Hillary's multi-millionaire backers on Wall Street who stand to benefit the most from the trade agreement she supported until Bernie called her on it?

This sentence was clearly the afterthought in his column, so I think not.  

The fact that his source, Robert Zoellick signed the January 26, 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton from Project for a New American Century (PNAC) that advocated war against Iraq.  That he was a former managing director of Goldman Sachs and was a strong supporter of both of the Bush Presidents and Mitt Romney will hardly endear him to many this year.  His ties to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Armitage are also a problem.