With all due respect to your own, genuinely held beliefs no doubt...
“Free trade” is to otherwise sensible conservatives, what “Tolerance” is for liberals:
Groupthink. Indoctrination even.
“Free trade” (as practiced - disregarding that nearly all other nations practice protectionism in return) is destructive to America.
Profoundly so.
This is not an intuitive conservative idea but one has to follow use logic and money trailing to see the veracity of it.