At America’s beginnings, tariffs that were used to help us as a fledgling, new country and economy. But we are the most powerful, richest country in the world now. There’s nothing wrong with giving a baby a bottle for their milk. There’s everything wrong with a strong grown man still drinking out of a baby bottle.
As far as the misapplication of globalism, you’re confusing political globalism which threatens national sovereignty, with economic voluntary cooperation in free trade between businesses in different countries which does not threaten national sovereignty but actually strengthens it.
Lol, they're all mixed up together along with many other motives various groups have for supporting pretend free trade agreements and the globalist goals of open borders and the erosion of national sovereignty. - The European Economic Community preceded the EU. The globalists proceed in stages and can use all the useful idiots they are able to hoodwink into their cause, wittingly or unwittingly.
You've spent too much time reading econ books and not enough time observing the world as it really is, and the behavior of individuals and nations as they really are.
Free trade and free markets work pretty well within the USA, but not so much on an international basis. We finally have a president who'll stop the pretense and resist the goals of the globalists, and deal with the world as it is for the benefit of US citizens.