I concluded it wasn’t.”“You called it the gold standard of trade deals,” Trump said of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an inviting opportunity for his opponent to a) be contrite and b) unpack her thinking on how trade deals should be structured going forward. But the specific issues of globalization and future trade arrangements are key to the “Achieving Prosperity” discussion, a discussion for which Clinton appeared ill prepared. Unlike the EU’s policy of publishing proposed positions, the United States “has intensified the secrecy of its trade policymaking. It is the case that trade deals have been co-opted by corporate interests. It is the case that, as Bernstein wrote on his blog recently, Trump plays the nostalgia card, longing for a period “when America was less exposed to global trade, immigrant flows, and non-whites.

Source: thestar September 28, 2016 12:00 UTC