The United States is becoming utterly unexceptional on another issue — immigration. It’s not really news that majorities everywhere want to restrict and control immigration. But it is strange that sentiment is as strong in the world’s foremost nation of immigrants. More Americans are against immigration than Frenchmen or Germans.

The most startling aspect here is the trend. The United States has had the biggest drop in support for trade among all countries surveyed since 2002. On some of the other issues — like immigration — the data suggest that American attitudes have shifted even more sharply. All of this points to a stunning lack of political leadership.

Foreign companies and foreigners — as well as expanding trade, travel and markets — are all going to be a large part of the 21st century. Look around. If you update the current ranking of the 10 richest people in the world, you will find that eight of them are now non-Americans and every one is an entrepreneur. The natives have gotten very good at capitalism.

And the American public gets more and more spooked and less and less prepared for the world we’re entering.