Trump’s ‘historic’ trade deal doesn’t look so historic after all – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-didnt-blow-up-our-trade-system-whoop-de-doo/2018/10/01/2137be18-c5b7-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html

A lot of folks have seen this where they work. Some clown comes in, sees something already in place, says “that isn’t good enough”, and completely reimplements it. After a lot of effort, the new thing is a lot like the old thing, and they claim credit.

«Trump has wrought a lot of destruction in service of landing us in roughly the same position we would have been in had we simply stayed in TPP and pursued more amicable negotiations with Mexico and Canada on other outstanding issues.»

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