{"id":15614,"date":"2016-06-30T02:51:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15614"},"modified":"2016-06-30T02:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:51:51","slug":"incoherence-on-trade-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15614","title":{"rendered":"Incoherence on trade policy &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Free-Trade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15617\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Free-Trade-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"Free-Trade\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Free-Trade-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Free-Trade.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s campaign rally today in Bangor, Maine featured a remarkably incoherent riff on trade policy.<\/p>\n<p>The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was ranting about trade agreements. He opposes free trade. Or does he?<\/p>\n<p>He launched into a strange and utterly nonsensical series of descriptions of what constitutes a &#8220;good&#8221; trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He began his trade tirade by saying he was &#8220;all for free trade.&#8221; Then he said he was opposed to it. Huh? What &#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t care if it was &#8220;horrible.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t care if it was &#8220;fair.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t care if it was &#8220;great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump then said something about negotiating trade agreements differently than the way they&#8217;ve been negotiated previously.<\/p>\n<p>Horrible, fair, great, bad? Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t care about any of those aspects of a trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>I need help understanding how any of that makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>And this guy wants to be president of the United States of America?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s campaign rally today in Bangor, Maine featured a remarkably incoherent riff on trade policy. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was ranting about trade agreements. He opposes free trade. Or does he? He launched into a strange and utterly nonsensical series of descriptions of what constitutes a &#8220;good&#8221; trade agreement. He began his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incoherence on trade policy &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[1424,1814],"class_list":["post-15614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15618,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions\/15618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}