there’s no shortage of issues important issues for us to disagree about like whether our economy needs the government to tax less everybody knows what I’m going to do cut taxes very substantially and create a great economy or spend more my Administration will provide firsttime home buyers with $25,000 or what we should do about our Southern border by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country and look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States we have a broken immigration system and we need to fix it every year in the mountains of Colorado the Aspen economic strategy group gathers leaders from business government and Academia to find common ground on important issues like these seeking to use evidence about the effects of policy to resolve policy differences and to bring us closer to that reconciliation we all need so we went to Aspen to speak with the group’s executive director Melissa Carney who said that today reconciliation faces a unique threat what’s really interesting and I think challenging is our country is definitely facing um a reconsideration of an economic Paradigm and from both parties we’re seeing a move towards more nationalist sentiment more protectionist sentiment things that really move away from the market based economic framework that’s driven growth and dynamism for so long