General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: I think I have woken up in bizarro world... [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and likely by now someone has explained that to him.
When things aren't going well for those prone to populist acting out, they react by immediately blaming others. Lots of others, actually, but the main targets of resentment always end up being "elites" (easy enough since as a group "they" always deserve blame for some things anyway). The hostility is mostly undifferentiated and undirected except always "upwards" toward government/elites, with a typically tiny handful of names they all memorize and group-attack.
Note that both our left-wing and right-wing populists attack mostly the same things, including the TPP.
The "Democrats" you speak of are people who don't see every single issue and person in an either-or "evil black victimizes me and must be destroyed" or "good white is the only one who can save me" way. There are reasons for the TPP that have nothing to do with Democrats' eagerness to cheat ourselves out of everything, but populists right and left reject all facts that might interfere with their hostility.