It would be good if that's actually what we had, but we don't.
Yes, real free trade is good.
Government negotiated trade deals, especially when foreign interests control our media and our politicians, that's bad.
The “free trade” theoreticians don’t want to hear that what we have is “managed trade” and that it was set up to disadvantage the United States for political reasons, not economics.
The hand outs were on purpose, to generate alliances and reduce military tensions with certain countries: China is still a Communist tyrannocracy that only allows free enterprise and property ownership under restricted conditions....which benefit the Communists.
But the U.S. wanted a counterweight to the Soviet Union and later Russia, although the rationale for the latter is weak to say the least.
And the other political reason was to crush Unionism in the U.S., which is primarily political but also economic.
“Free Trade” deals have almost nothing to with some naive principle advanced by Adam Smith, whose own writing was intended to uphold the class system. On the contrary, they are merely tools of international policy and to some extent domestic policy.
First and foremost, they are designed to drive the middle and lower classes of America into destitution and ultimately to lose significant political power so that the independence of the United States can be destroyed: the global order can then be imposed.
We have Free Trade in the States that are United, and it’s guaranteed in the Constitution. The Federal union has a Congress which can negotiate interstate rules so that trade rules are normalized across the States. There is no similar entity for the world, and that is what the globalist elites want: a world government that suborns the independence of the U.S. Senate and House. The WTO, TPA etc are of course merely first steps down this road.
The goal is crush any opposition to this mounted by the Little People of the U.S., which of course is...us.