Is it Comrade President now?

Some conservatives are up in arms about President Donald Trump’s decision to have the government buy shares in Intel .

That’s state ownership of the means of production, isn’t it? Classic, textbook socialism.

“If there is anyone who was a halfway prominent mainstream conservative . . . 10 years ago who now tells me they wouldn’t have screamed about incipient ‘socialism!’ or ‘fascism!’ about Trump’s Intel ‘investment’,” writes Jonah Goldberg on X, “I presumptively assume they are lying.”

President Donald Trump speaks during an event signing a proclamation honoring the fourth anniversary of the attack at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. AP

In fact, a whole school of thought on the right, going back decades, has championed industrial policies as bold as Trump’

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