I always liked Milton Friedman from the Chicago school of economics better. When Clinton signed NAFTA into law, I knew free trade sucked.
NAFTA actually made some sense - because it took into account the geographic realities with having a third world nation on an open border with the US. using Mexico as a source of labor for US low skill manufacturing made sense, giving them a chance to build an economy with jobs for their citizens - in Mexico.
It is free trade with China that essentially killed NAFTA. All investment in low skilled manufauring, goes to china now. what do you see that's "Made in Mexico" when you shop? not much. and china also has an educated workforce, so tech industries like semiconductors, can go their too.
in the meantime, the globalists shifted gears and now Mexico is the source of low wage labor for US service jobs - but since they have to be physically present in the US to hold those jobs, the border is wide open.