While Bush, McCain, Romney, Gingrich and anyone else who supported TARP is deserving of all the contempt we can heap upon them, if you really think it was this country’s first leap towards socialism then you must have been asleep for the last 80-100 years.
Well...I suppose it depends on how you defend leap. If you define socialism as nationalization of industries, Bush’s TARP was certainly the first major leap. The New Deal is better described as fascism e.g. more state control but continuing “private” ownership