So the latest dog whistle the GOP have been using to rile up it's base lately is "communism". We've had "woke", "transvestites", "Antifa", illegal immigrants", and a bunch of other stuff that makes the MAGA crowd don their red caps (do they ever take them off??) and wave their US/Confederate flags. But at the same time as the focus now has shifted to "communism" the US government has, on trump's orders, quietly bought stakes in seven additional companies nearly a year after acquiring 10% of Intel. Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA. 'Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies' https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/ "The announcement comes nearly a year after President Trump announced the federal government would take a 10 percent stake in Intel, one of the nation’s largest chip manufacturers, for roughly $11 billion in federal subsidies the company received. The practice has drawn criticism from Trump’s Republican base. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), who drafted the foundation of the CHIPS and Science Act, said at the time the law never intended to let the federal government take a major stake in Intel or any other major company. Despite backlash last summer, the Trump administration moved last December to take a $150 million stake in xLight, a startup developing laser technology, in exchange for federal incentives."
