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I think even Bernie was against TPP, not just Trump.

The situation could be similar to the idea that you gave unfair terms to a business partner and felt robbed. So you found other business partners and signed the same terms with them, basically to spite/limit the original business partner. But now you are still being robbed, even faster infact, and by multiple people, and no way of recourse, as you just signed that deal!

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> I think even Bernie was against TPP, not just Trump.

It didn't do much for US workers, just protected Intellectual Property. TPP means you can't outsource it to China, but you can absolutely outsource it to Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. as long as they respect the IP.

Mixed feelings. It has no real benefit for US workers, but, at the same time, the damage is done and US manufacturing isn't going to magically reappear. Might as well at least try to lock down the IP and force Asia (read: China) to play by the rules.

Except China is able to maintain very favorable trading conditions through currency manipulation. If you can get them to stop doing that, there would be a non-zero amount of jobs that get returned to the US.

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