I love free trade but the US engages in stupid trade.
Exactly right. Free Trade without fair trade is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. You will always lose.
Things like NAFTA, CAFTA, TPA/TPP etc pass for only one reason...and that is the ultra rich donors needed by all candidates to keep them in the contest, demand it. For example NAFTA allows them to export manufacturing to Mexico and use the cheap labor, then export the manufactured product back to USA Tariff free.
Labor rates in most Pacific countries are even lower than Mexico!