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Republicans are against free trade now.
by dmode 10y ago
Republicans are against free trade now.
- dba7dba 10y agoTrump =! GOP According to many in GOP...
- mixedCase 10y agoWhy do a suprising amount of people in this thread act like the TPP is "just free trade".
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- cardiffspaceman 10y agoThe Fine Article: The Obama administration on Friday gave up all hope of enacting its sweeping Pacific trade agreement, a pact designed to preserve U.S. economic influence in fast-growing Asia that was buried by a wave of antitrade political sentiment that culminated with Tuesday’s presidential election. The WSJ article we are here to talk about actually equates the treaty with free trade. The article also basically describes an alignment with Congressional GOP with Trump on the subject: Just over a year ago Republicans were willing to vote overwhelmingly in support of Mr. Obama’s trade policy. But as the political season approached and voters registered their concerns by supporting Mr. Trump, the GOP reacted coolly to the deal Mr. Obama’s team reached with Japan and 10 others countries just over a year ago in Atlanta. There are reasons not to equate the treaty with free trade and not to equate GOP with Trump but the actual article points out the links.
- sickbeard 10y agoThey are for building walls, cancelling trade agreements, leaving military alliances, I guess they wanna be isolationists