Too simplistic.
We should not have “free trade” with unfree countries for one thing.
Not that “free trade” actually exists
“Free trade” is fine. Unfortunately what we have going on right now with many nations ISN’T free trade. It’s a one sided scam designed to destroy the traditional middle class of this country. If we are ever to recover economically, it must be stopped.
Free trade, Free trade, Free trade. We haven’t had free trade in this country for a long, long, long time. What we have is welfare system for large corporate. One day it well bankrupt us. As more and more people receive social welfare it free up their money to buy good from wider range of corporation. Unlike a lot of us who help to produce wealth, social welfare people produce no wealth. (Think of sub-prime home loan “banks†selling houses to just warm bodies.)Foreign aid is nothing more than corporate welfare as well. Lets say a small country has a natural resource that corporation wants to buy but that country needs electric plant. Our government gives the “leader” of that country $10 million of our money. He skims $3 million and pays GE $7 million to build the electric plant. Sorry, that’s not free trade. That’s corporate welfare.
Anyone opposed to free trade is advocating government control over individual economic freedom. Let's just be clear on that.
Now, with that out of the way. Let the anti-free-trade people justify why they want more government control over our economic lives. It will, no doubt, have something to do with the "common good."
Everything the authoritarians want is for the "common good" as they define it.