Where Democrats repudiate President Obama

(NYPOST)Democrats cheered President Obama’s speech for Hillary Clinton last week, and rightly so: It was a stem-winder. Too bad those same delegates also roundly rejected his last major initiative — the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“No TPP” signs were some of the most common on the convention floor, and the party platform strongly opposes the treaty.

Clinton came out against TPP (which she’d long favored) during the primaries as she moved left to fend off Bernie Sanders.

Yet Democrats have been moving against free trade for decades now. In remarks to New York delegates last week, Sen. Chuck Schumer — who in January takes over as Senate Democratic leader — recalled how he’d turned down then-President Bill Clinton’s personal entreaty to support NAFTA back in the 1990s.

Indeed, Obama needed lots of Republican votes to even get the authority to negotiate the final TPP treaty — which he considers vital not only to boosting the US economy but to building a stronger Pacific alliance to contain China’s dangerous regional ambitions.

He’s absolutely right — which is why we’ve always backed him on this issue.

But Democrats still refuse to support the president on TPP, while GOP nominee Donald Trump has been bashing it from the start of his campaign.

None of this means it’s dead: Trump insists he’s not anti-trade; he just wants to negotiate deals that are better for America.

And Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe — a TPP supporter and close Clinton ally — caused a stink mid-convention by suggesting that a President Hillary Clinton might flip back to supporting the deal with a few cosmetic changes.

The Clinton camp went all-out to deny McAuliffe’s claim. Whether you believe that, we suppose, depends on how much you trust Hillary — who’s going to have to abandon at least a few of her current promises if she’s going to have an economic-growth agenda.

It would help, of course, if the president made a real effort to change Democratic minds on the issue.