RE: Tariffs - Two horses one saddle

Your points are valid. But i want to be clear. I have no horse for this saddle. Separate of your post, the other day i was thinking of how vague this trumps tariffs thing was to me. So i asked chat gpt something like…what are the ideas behind Trumps tariffs.
I read through what chat gpt spit out. The part that seemed most worth considering was this idea that the globalization narrative was new relatively speaking. I was never personally was thinking about this from a nostalgia point of view that things used to be better. The bit that i found compelling was that nations acting in their own self interest was healthier.
I’m probably attracted to that part for my own selfish reasons. As in the last years ive adopted an attitude of self first. I have spent a lot of my life in appeasement of others…something in me/my upbringing has always held a host energy and led to me putting my own well being lower. In my 40’s this started to change, and i have leaned into being more selfish in terms of personal health and life choices. The results have showed me im actually able to be more of service to others when i behave selfishly. And im not talking selfish in the rub my hands together ‘wha ha ha’ mr burns kind of way.
So i just want to clarify what part of my light perusal of the concepts behind trumps tariff talk that i thought was worth a ponder. As my brain wasn’t in the good ol’ days side of it. But more perhaps in the Ann Rand style concepts around the self regulating factors of inherent selfishness.

I’m currently unattached and gestating. But i often feel there is truth in the grey between. That perhaps the correct paths lie somewhere between the extremes of globalist and protectionism agendas.