Free trade is ideal, without any doubts, much like lower taxes are ideal. However, how can you have free trade with a counterparty that is not free (decisions made based upon not just tax but political considerations?
Free Trade only works among states of equal status. Free Trade with peasant economies in the age of easy labor mobility will destroy the stronger nation. It was never meant to be implemented internationally, only works intra-nationally.
It isn’t free trade if both parties aren’t free trading.
Paul Ryan and HRC can pretend all they want that they support free trade. But that’s the wrong label for what they support.