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"Though it is thoughtful of trade negotiators to spare us the ugly sight of the horse-trading and chicanery that makes up every law-making process" This senten
by wmeredith 17y ago
"Though it is thoughtful of trade negotiators to spare us the ugly sight of the horse-trading and chicanery that makes up every law-making process"
This sentence relates point of view is so misaligned with my own that I'm not sure I can take the rest of the article seriously, if at all.
- decode 17y agoI read that sentence as tongue-in-cheek. It's a jab at both the normal way of doing law and also the trade negotiators (they're still doing chicanery, just behind closed doors). The second part of the sentence also makes it seem like the author is laughing at the negotiators: whatever their scheming intentions, the plan blew up in their faces.