Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached

Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by teekert on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:02AM (#10332227)

Wow: The New York Times is very clear on its political preference: "Donald Trump has repeatedly castigated the Pacific trade accord as “a bad deal,” injecting conservative populism into the debate and emboldening some congressional Republicans who fear for local interests like sugar and rice, and many conservatives who oppose Mr. Obama at every turn."

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by dcre on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:23PM (#10332870)

I understand what you're saying, but the point is that typically Republicans are in favor of free trade agreements, and the populist anti-Washington-elite movement rallying behind Trump and general anti-Obama sentiment are the explanation for this unusual situation (GOP opposition).

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by rockstartower on Monday October 05, 2015 @02:34PM (#10333782)

The first half of the NYT sentence was journalism, the last half of the sentence was editorializing.

They can't let Republicans look good, so they have to editorialize and attach negative motive to them.

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by jonknee on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:57AM (#10332645)

What part of that isn't accurate?

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by teekert on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:05PM (#10332710)

Saying "injecting conservative populism" without any example and counter argument just comes across very dumb. They want to form an opinion for me and I'm very well capable of doing that myself based on facts. This really downgrades the NYT for me.

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by jonknee on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:07PM (#10332723)

Have you followed Trump's campaign at all? It's very much conservative populism and it's causing a huge rift in the GOP.

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by teekert on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:16PM (#10332800)

Ok, I looked it up on the book of knowledge: "Right-wing populism is a political ideology that rejects existing political consensus and often combines laissez-faire liberalism and anti-elitism. It is considered populism because of its appeal to the "common man" as opposed to the elites."

I thought populism was associated with just saying anything that is popular but not necessarily true and based on circular references or other obfuscating techniques to score easily with people of low education/IQ/logical reasoning skills.. I see I was wrong. In that case, perhaps my original remark is not valid.

Actually, I agree with Trump very much. The TTIP is horribly elitist.

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Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached by thieving_magpie on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:25PM (#10332884)

You've found fire where there's not even smoke.

Trump would immediately come to anyone's mind when you say 'conservative populism'. What counter argument would you like to see here? Trump injects conservative populism into the debate... or did he???

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