But muh protectionism helps the worker and muh TPP is for evil rich people.
If you are one of the workers being displacec as this article acknowledges in low skilled manufacturing and that new job isn't going to be going to you, then yea this is not just a bad idea. This is a financial apocalypse for those families.
Failure to understand, failure to do anything to alleviate it, in preference to just letting them eat cake is precisely why we have Trump and Sanders now, it is only going to get worse. If people could just for a minute, put theirselves in that person's shoes and understand what they are going through, and seek to do something, anthing to help the situation politically might not be so bad.