The effort to pass TPP is very similar to how NAFTA was passed. More than 60% of the American people opposed NAFTA, and much of the Democrat party opposed it. But it was passed with a globalist Democrat president (Slick Willie) and almost unanimous support of Republicans in the House and Senate.
And, we had all the living ex-presidents travelling to the White House to join with Slick in supporting NAFTA. The globalists, or internationalists and the transnational corporations usually get whatever they want.
And, like TPP, NAFTA was sold as an agreement to “level the playing field”, to create American jobs and open foreign markets to US products.
When NAFTA was being debated, the US had a trade surplus with Mexico of several hundred million dollars. Now we have a trade deficit of around $60 billion.
And here's a snapshot of who got the ball rolling on NAFTA:
Back row, left to right: Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, at the initialing of the draft North American Free Trade Agreement in October 1992. In front are Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development Jaime Serra Puche, United States Trade Representative Carla Hills, and Canadian Minister of International Trade Michael Wilson.