Corporate Statism. Privatize the profits. Socialize the human costs of production. Even Trump sees the economy in terms of sovereign wealth and power on the world stage. Government stakes in business and all of that.
Then consider AI and how it might rewrite the implied contract between capitalism and jobs. Socialism may be inevitable. If so, would Republicans and Conservatives be better served to get ahead of them curve and start to shape future policy rather than have the DSA dictate terms?
There are two very different views of American greatness, and I'm afraid Trump shares the view that globalists and other enemies of freedom have. They understand American greatness in terms of imperial power, of armies and navies dominating the globe militarily, crushing all opposition and using force to impose the will of the elites in Washington on the world.
But there is another vision of our greatness that I call "de Tocquevillian greatness," after Alexis de Tocqueville. This vision says that our greatness was in the liberty that was given to the American people. Rather than being plundered and used as slaves by an elite class, people were allowed to retain more of their wealth, which they could then use in myriad ways to improve the world around them. Rather than corrupt, inefficient government initiatives that commonly make problems like poverty and poor education worse, individuals and private cooperatives can respond to solve problems far more effectively. But they can only do that if they have personal freedom, and retain more of their wealth to fund their own projects.
Needless to say, things are moving in the wrong direction. I hoped when Trump started fighting the bureaucracy in Washington that he would strike a blow for freedom, but increasingly it just looks like a factional fight between different bands of collectivists.