Your post #689 is the crux of the biscuit. The Free Trade above everything mentality is as antithetical to the founding principles of our Constitutional Republic as communism. They may be on opposite ends of the spectrum but the bottom line is the same. For the purposes of either one of those entities the Constitution is an obstacle whose only positive use is to hold up as a distracting prop to keep the unwashed masses hypnotized while they go about their work replacing it with an unanswerable corporate structure for the Free Traders or a Peoples Party for the communists.
They play off of each other rather well. In fact the battle is really between those two ideological entities over the carcass of the once great Republic. Neither is particularly concerned with the people. The people are little more than cordwood fuel for either system.