[Durus]

You are using the term "free trade" as meaning something other than free trade. Free trade has always worked and there is plenty of history to back that up. Super regulated trade between nations, with America universally getting the short end of the stick, idiotically called "free trade" can't work for America long term.

This reminds me of all the hippies that hated deregulation because of what it did to california energy markets, while conviently ignoring that the industry was never deregulated. It was re-regulated and the polititcians called the re-regulation de-rgulation to cover their idiocy.

[SeminoleCounty]

Can you provide me facts that Free Trade has worked? Besides increasing Globalism, fostering Socialism, enriching Communism.

The EU is a product of Free Trade. Go read their charter and about their beginnings

[SunkenCiv]

Well said, well summed. Free trade is not what the EU is about — not surprisingly, the EU is about union, and about Europe, and not about trade, commerce, markets, or development, it’s about Soviet-style / Euro-style five year plans and one-size-fits-all “open markets”.