Another promise bites the dust

[struggle4progress]

By Paul Waldman
March 31 at 12:57 PM

“I’m going to rip up those trade deals,” Donald Trump promised when he was campaigning for president, and about no deal was he more emphatic than the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed by George H.W. Bush and ratified under Bill Clinton. “NAFTA has been a disaster for our country. NAFTA has to be totally gotten rid of,” he said. “So, all of that will change with me and what I tell people is you’re going to have jobs” ...

... if you thought the Trump administration was going to rein in corporate power to do a favor for workers, you’ll be disappointed yet again.

We can’t predict the future, but if this first move is any indication, it appears that rather than scrapping NAFTA, the administration is going to negotiate some minor technical changes that attempt to give the United States some more advantageous terms while keeping the basic structure in place. Which may be perfectly fine from a policy standpoint, but it’s not anything like what Trump promised ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/31/another-trump-promise-bites-the-dust/

[underpants]

1. And the other countries are just going to go along with it?

There's a difference between negotiating and ordering.