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"Communism is only good when Trump does it!" ~Dope1
Ah, remember when MAGA used to cosplay as champions of the free market?
I'm glad they've retired that ill fitting costume...
"It’s official: Trump is a Communist"
"One danger of nationalism, Friedrich Hayek warned in 1960, was the "bridge it provides from conservatism to Communism."
"Like a kid in a toy store with a nearly unlimited supply of someone else's money, Donald Trump is on a shopping spree the likes of which America has never seen.
Trump has now taken pieces of more than a dozen private companies. And it is all happening without even an attempt at getting congressional authorization."
"Even in light of the administration's other intrusions into the free market—hiking tariffs on nearly all imports, applying ideological conditions on schools and media companies,
we've witnessed a breathtaking turn of events. Trump and his top officials have signaled that they are only getting started. In August he told reporters "I want to try and get as much as I can!"
"The Trump administration's pivot toward communism/socialism did not come without warning. One particular moment stands out:
In an April interview with Time, Trump declared that America was akin to "a department store." He elaborated: "I meet with companies, and then I set a fair price."
"Trump has transformed the U.S. economy from a free market to a command economy, complete with the ability for Trump to manipulate the market and tip the scales in favor of his own investments,
preferences and friends or family."
"All the methods of interventionism are doomed to failure, because the more the government intervenes—e.g., tariffs, subsidies, regulations, price controls,
bailouts—the more it distorts the economy and everyday living. To remedy the problem, the government intervenes again and again, which only compounds the chaos.
This the path to socialism by installments." ~Ludwig von Mises
"Today it’s Intel, U.S. Steel and MP Materials, tomorrow it could be any industry. Socialism is literally government control of the means of production.
When you see the people supporting the president just sort of saying 'this is good' I worry that the free market movement that was a big part of the Republican Party
is gone." ~Senator Rand Paul
MAcA! Make America Communist Again!
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