Forget the DU created issues. How does Hillary not have an opinion on TPP?

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117. You do want to go back to the Coolidge/Hoover days? No WTO, no trade agreements,

only "unilateral trade agreements"? (Which is what exactly? Unilaterally imposed trade agreements?) Not even "bilateral" agreements between two countries?

FDR tried so hard to get nationalism out of the international trade system and substitute multilateral planning and enforcement to prevent a return Coolidge/Hoover thinking. He would probably not be surprised that GOP party platforms in Texas, Iowa and other states support US withdrawal from the WTO. Republicans opposed his trade (and other) policies all through the 1930's and 1940's (when Truman continued them). He would not be surprised that it continues today.

OTOH, he might be surprised that some Democrats want to go back to the Coolidge/Hoover days of ultimate economic nationalism. Thankfully Europe makes FDR's policies work today. Strong middle classes and world-class income equality, two things that did not exist under the economic nationalism of Coolidge and Hoover. They did indeed treat FDR's ideas as a "learning experience".

Arbitration is not inherently anti-democratic. It works in progressive countries everywhere where people see cooperating with other countries as preferable to "my way (trade rules) or the highway (no trade for you)" politics.