This is not a response to the “free trade deal” that recently advanced, but it certainly may apply, as well to a large number of other things.

Also, altho I’ve had this to say for around a year, credit to E. J. Dionne for recently mentioning this/a similar point in a write-up of his recently in The Washington Post:

Bernie Sanders: The new St. Nick

We are a social species – a community – a single group all together – Life is not an Ironman contest for the ‘survival of the fittest;’

& Anyone whose stated mission is to help “99%” of people flourish, is obviously on the side of “Us” – The World.

The fact is, things like economic populism help secure basically-Everyone’s being provided for; & that is much closer to the final purpose of Government – the point at infinity –  the full self-actualization of Government to a Government of Utopia.

Thank You.
Joe