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Trump plans withdrawal from South Korea free trade deal

3 points by stablemap 9y ago

cmurf 9y ago
It's completely consistent with the economic nationalism and populist rhetoric: improving the ability to act selfishly or even vindictively, without wide scale repercussions, is good. This isn't an economic policy, it's both political and religious based. Jan-Werner Muller noted that populists do not like having to cope with any form of political opposition or constraint: “when ruling, [populists] refuse to recognize any opposition as legitimate. The populist logic also implies that whoever does not support populist parties might not be a proper part of the people — always defined as righteous and morally pure.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/09/why-the-trump-administration-hates-multilateral-trade-agreements-the-most/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/09/... This is directly linkable to dominionist evangelicalism, and prosperity theology. Only about 1/3 of planet can be saved anyway, broad agreement by getting most countries on the same page is not only unexpected but suspicious, hence paranoid conspiracy theories about globalism, one world government, etc. Trump has slid into the evangelical role of ungodly people who do God's work. That's why they don't condemn him for anything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-most-evangelicals-dont-condemn-trump/2017/09/01/64baab1c-8e79-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-most-evangelical... This isn't a new Trump thing either. It's been going on a while. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/ft_16-02-22_religionpoliticalaffiliation_640px-2/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religiou... And VP Pence is a evangelical. He won't be alone with a woman unless his wife is present. http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/mike-pence-wife-dinner/ http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/mike-pence-wife-dinner/

3 points by stablemap 9y ago

It's completely consistent with the economic nationalism and populist rhetoric: improving the ability to act selfishly or even vindictively, without wide scale repercussions, is good. This isn't an economic policy, it's both political and religious based. Jan-Werner Muller noted that populists do not like having to cope with any form of political opposition or constraint: “when ruling, [populists] refuse to recognize any opposition as legitimate. The populist logic also implies that whoever does not support populist parties might not be a proper part of the people — always defined as righteous and morally pure.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/09/why-the-trump-administration-hates-multilateral-trade-agreements-the-most/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/09/... This is directly linkable to dominionist evangelicalism, and prosperity theology. Only about 1/3 of planet can be saved anyway, broad agreement by getting most countries on the same page is not only unexpected but suspicious, hence paranoid conspiracy theories about globalism, one world government, etc. Trump has slid into the evangelical role of ungodly people who do God's work. That's why they don't condemn him for anything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-most-evangelicals-dont-condemn-trump/2017/09/01/64baab1c-8e79-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-most-evangelical... This isn't a new Trump thing either. It's been going on a while. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/ft_16-02-22_religionpoliticalaffiliation_640px-2/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religiou... And VP Pence is a evangelical. He won't be alone with a woman unless his wife is present. http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/mike-pence-wife-dinner/ http://fortune.com/2017/04/05/mike-pence-wife-dinner/