MAGA loves to chant “America will never be a socialist country,” but their policies are starting to look a lot like the very thing they claim to hate. From Trump’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s proposal for the government to buy a stake in Intel, the so-called champions of capitalism are pushing America toward state ownership and economic nationalism.

Even conservatives like Erick Erickson are calling it what it is: socialism dressed up in patriotic language. In this episode, we break down the hypocrisy, explain why tariffs and government stakes are not capitalism, and show how MAGA is edging closer to the state-capitalist models of Russia and China.

Follow along as we pull back the curtain on the gap between MAGA rhetoric and MAGA reality.

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