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Trump Socialism, In The News

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Trump rejects traditional conservatism, 
embraces a Republican version of socialism
05/10/26 

Republicans have denounced Democrats as 
socialists and communists since the 1930s. 
President Trump has frequently joined the 
chorus, such as when he said in 2019: "A 
vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for 
the rise of radical socialism and the 
destruction of the American Dream."

Yet despite his hyperbolic rhetoric, Trump 
has abandoned key conservative principles 
that Republicans have long espoused and 
instead adopted some socialist positions.

For generations, Republicans have advocated 
for small government, free market capitalism 
with minimal government interference, free 
trade and low taxes. 

But Trump has expanded presidential powers 
in ways that would appall Reagan, threatening 
our freedoms, interfering in businesses and 
the free market in an unprecedented manner, 
and imposing tariffs that are the antithesis 
of free trade and function as a regressive 
national sales tax on Americans.

There are too many examples of Trump’s brand of 
socialism to list, but here are a few, compiled 
by the libertarian Cato Institute, which labels 
them "a hybrid between socialism and capitalism."

Trump required tech giant Intel to give the 
government 10 percent of its stock to receive 
$9 billion in federal grants approved by 
Congress during the administration of President 
Joe Biden. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, 
warning: “If conservatives endorse this now, 
they hand Democrats a blueprint to expand 
government ownership over the private sector 
later. Socialism is literally government 
control of the means of production,”

Trump approved Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion 
purchase of US Steel only after the Japanese 
company agreed to give him the power to veto 
major actions by US Steel.

The president required AI chip manufacturers 
Nvidia and AMD to give the U.S. government 
15 percent of the revenue they generate from 
the sale of chips to China, in return for 
his approval of licenses to export the chips.
Trump has also used the presidency to collect 
money and interfere in the operations of media 
companies, ignoring the freedom of the press 
guaranteed by the Constitution’s First 
Amendment. You expect such actions in a 
socialist or communist dictatorship — not in 
America.
https://thehill.com/opinion/5870607-trump-republican-socialism-democrats/

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