road to claim and are now in a bit of a box themselves to show anything different. Yes, we had NAFTA under a Dem president, but a Repub congress. The TPP framework had its beginnings in 2005. Dems received a lot (of deserved) blame for slow playing things for years and then making it a very low priority with lots of internal fighting and continued opposition up through the last days of Obama. Obama made any kind of trade expansion and TPP in particular a very low priority as Dems remain very tied to deep-rooted labor and other anti-trade constituencies. Now with populism in full bloom in this country and all over both parties, there is no expectation of any sudden embrace of something like TPP. We may calm down some of the anti-WTO rhetoric, but I wouldn't even really count on that either.