Shove the "intellectual" bit.
When you preach government intervention of industry, you preach a liberal sermon...period.
Governments have intervened in industry since the priest kings of Ur and always will. It was the American government's patronage that advanced canal construction, then railroads, then airlines (before widespread passenger air travel, mail delivery was the core business for fledgling airlines), then the interstate highway system, etc.
Coming back with nothing, again. But it's not cool.