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In reply to the discussion: Want to know just how fake some pro-TPP people really are? [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)with international issues. Starting with at least FDR Democrats have been more open to working out global issues cooperatively with other countries, while republicans view the US as 'exceptional' and prefer to solve problems through unilateral American action or build 'walls' to keep the rest of the world out. Polls consistently show this.
The republican base seems to hate almost every international negotiation, agreement and organization from trade agreements to the UN to the WTO to the Arms Trade Treaty to the Disability Rights Treaty to the Cuban diplomatic agreement, I could go on.
The Democratic preference for international cooperation vs. the republican preference for unilateral, 'exceptionalist' action goes back in the polls to long before Obama was the president.