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Comment by s1artibartfast

I dont think it is that complex in this case.

Most on the left would consider it authoritarian despotism if Trump started "Confiscating" companies. Most on the right would consider it the same if Biden or whomever did the same.

In general, the US has strong opposition to the state unilaterally confiscating companies, and it is the kind of thing seen in Nazi Germany, revolutionary Cuba and Iran, or the Islamic state.

The last time the US government tried this was steel mills under Truman in 1952, and that was with compensation and struck down by the SCOTUS.

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