This author needs to look at the official definition of the word “socialism” and not put up some false straw man definition.
He, intentionally or otherwise, missed the distinction between the Federal government spending money on defense (which it should) and government spending money on hand-outs (which it should not.)
That’s correct. Just because there are private companies does not mean that there is not rampant socialism running right alongside. Actually, of course, the situation is quite tenable for fascism, which requires a private sector to vampirically drain.
Just because nobody’s being herded into concentration camps does not mean we are not suffering under fascism, which is socialism-lite.