I'm actually curious. What do you hate so much about the TPP? I've been trying to figure it out because, for all intents and purposes, as far as trade deals go at all, it seemed pretty good.
It increased necessary environmental standards. It increased labor regulations in countries that have become truly competitive against our manufacturing sector (which would benefit from having higher labor standards in these countries). It also decreased, necessarily, our domestic patents on new drugs from pharmaceutical companies.
For anyone that is okay with trade deals generally, I don't see why the TPP, in content, got the hate it did. Other than it being a vehicle for anti-globalist populists, like Trump and Sanders, to hate on. But I'd guess they would've attacked virtually any trade deal as being harmful to the American worker because, and this is true, America doesn't aid those hurt by creative destruction. But if we had also done what other programs Obama had wanted, we probably would have more of an infrastructure in place domestically to deal with these problems. So /shrug.
Also, I'm curious what you think about these scores that a progressive organization provides based on the votes that Senators provide on
actual legislation:
Here Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker are listed as more progressive than Bernie Sanders.