What are you even talking about? I've certainly never said that our government policies equal free trade. Free does not exist on an international basis and likely never will. There are too many nations that will always look after certain national interests and I hope the US will become one of them and remain one of them.
Free trade is nothing a set of lies used by globalists to sell the trade policies they wanted to the US Congress and as much as they public as possible. And it is also a theory espoused by econ professors and believed by all too many gullible students.
They are misusing the term no doubt and too many people are too ignorant to know it.
AS you state FT will never occur in a world where governments are seizing more and more power. Tariffs give them even more power.