We are witnessing a rare (these days) internecine fight in the Democratic Party over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a treaty that would liberalize trade relations between the United States and 11 other Pacific-rim countries. …
But the TPP is a controversy on which Obama may be unusually free to ignore the demands of his core supporters. That’s because these days most Democrats — and, as it turns out, most Americans — have remarkably vague views on the question of free trade. This is shown by a cleverly worded question on the American National Election Study survey conducted just after the 2012 presidential election. CONT.
Patrick J. Egan, The Monkey Cage