$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms

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12. Creeping Socialism, but only in the area of gaining some control over certain businesses.

That will probably expand greatly over the next 3 years to include more businesses and greater control.
All for the sake of money, power, and control.
But the part of Socialism that actually helps people probably won't be there.
What the nation really needs is Universal Healthcare, and a restoration of all those agencies that monitor, and set standards for, industry. The latter is needed to reduce the need for expenditure on the health care side of the equation.
Clean air, water, and soil results in healthier people. Pure/healthy food has the same result.
However that doesn't result in short term billions pouring into the pockets of Trump and his cronies. After all, that's what this move by the Trump administration is really all about.

Selective Socialism of the kind that makes the rich richer.