Obambi did not need to take over the entire auto industry- only one company
Then he uses the power of the government and a willing compliant media to drive the others out of business
It was obvious from the beginning that this was going to produce thorny ethical issues. When the same government that is supposed to adjudicate fairly now has a dog in the fight then ugly things happen. To Toyota itself (which in the past has profited mightily from protectionist Japanese government policy) we could well say “Now you know what it feels like to have a thumb on the OTHER side of your scale.”