RETIII's excellent diary explores the effect of economic populism as Trump continues to prosecute his campaign and hints at policy designed to tax the rich hedge funders and punish offshoring corporations like Nabisco, which is moving its Oreo operation to Mexico.
Skeptics argue, oh well, Congress will never sign off on such radical unRepublican Establishment sorts of tax reform. BUT, what about the TPP and KXL? These ARE executive decisions. Trump is all about "China is eating our lunch!", "China is killing our base and our manufacturing and devaluing their currency!"...........
Sounds like the TPP to me. Sounds like the TPP abbreviated just enough to get the point across and get people fired up about it. And what about KXL? That's China and the Koch brothers and some commodities hoarders and hedge funding vampires, who want to use the interior states as their dirty right of way for oil that is to be sold on the world market. I doubt Trump is going for that since he isn't eating Oreos ever again and wants to build a wall on the Mexican border.
Meanwhile, Hillary won't answer about the TPP or KXL. As soon as Obama ok'd Arctic drilling, she relented and came out against it, when it was too late for her sponsors to be offended by her stance. I don't think she can beat Trump if she comes out for the TPP and KXL and Trump is against them. Even I'd have to vote for Trump. And this is where her trustworthiness ratings will come to bear. She is ostensibly running as a continuation of Obama, and he has been foot dragging on both issues as well. She worked on both projects and I think we can assume she is for both of them, otherwise she would just say, one way or another. If and when she does come out with positions, it will be late and suspect; Trump already having laid the groundwork relentlessly and incrementally as he is on TV every day and getting extreme scrutiny.