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MAGA Isn’t Turning Socialist. It Is Making State Power Serve the Right
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MAGA Isn’t Turning Socialist. It Is Making State Power Serve the Right
The Wrong Label
The reported evidence is straightforward: Donald Trump and JD Vance have discarded parts of Republican free-market orthodoxy, embraced government intervention, and attacked globalization. The Wall Street Journal calls this drift “socialist.” That framing confuses the use of state power with its purpose.
Socialism is not simply government doing things. Price controls, corporate stakes, tariffs, and restrictions on capital can serve workers, oligarchs, nationalists, or politically connected…
The skinny
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