text: Calling Bannon's ambitions for political realignment "cosmological" is a bit much. The guy is a white nationalist thug and self-described anarchist. Why dignify him with supernatural stature.
  
  <<The dirty secret is that TPP was not an example of “free trade.” Its hundreds of pages of provisions represented a grab bag of goodies for Big Pharma and other large corporate interests.>>
  
  For a more temperate explanation of the TPP:
  
  http://www.vox.com/cards/trans-pacific-partnership
  
  Say what you will about the TPP, but by pulling out Trump has ceded American global leadership to China. Btw, China will have no compunction about disposing of worker and environmental protections insisted upon by the Obama administration in negotiating the TPP. Perhaps MSW can expand on this "social market economy" that will manage to encompass a protectionist, isolationist regime. Rather, Trump Inc., like the Putin oligarchy Trump so admires, promises corruption and kleptocracy unrivaled in US history.