We don’t need anyone making trade deals who thinks that trade deals exist to “encourage democracy, respect for human rights.”
But a true Justice System can only have “Just Laws” which only promote “public virtue”, All unjust law is “null and void” (Justice Marshall).
Lockean philosophy/Free Market Capitalism is a product of Free Will/Individual Natural Rights from God, which only came from the Christian Worldview. It is what Montesquieu knew was essential for Free Republics—”Virtue”. It goes back to the ideas of the Ancient Greeks—that without Virtue, there is no freedom possible. The Virtue Ethics of Aristotle did not exclude Man/Boy sex at the time—since it was the norm, as was slavery, and child-sacrifice/killing infants and selling human beings.
Christianity perfected the Virtue System of Aristotle, with the additional Theological Virtues.
Without Virtue in the people, Freedom is impossible, so all Just governments have to promote “public virtue” only. Promoting Vice will collapse the system (Cicero).. All Justice Systems have to promote “public virtue” or else it is unjust law (unequal, evil, theft, or uses people as a “Means to an End”).
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes removed virtue from our “Justice” system—which was impossible-—but control of Words/Ideas will control the beliefs and attitudes of whom are told even the most irrational things, like Good is Evil and Men are Women.
America is being destroyed because we destroyed our “Justice” System. Cicero stated that when Law ceases to be Just-—it will destroy and collapse the culture/country.