A Time for Choosing as ‘Chairman’ Trump Takes Stakes in Private Industry, Earning Cheers From Bernie Sanders
‘It’s called business,’ the president says of the approach of giving Uncle Sam ownership stakes in major firms.
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Mr. Wegmann is White House Correspondent for RealClear Politics. He previously wrote for the Washington Examiner and has done investigative reporting on congressional corruption and institutional malfeasance.
‘It’s called business,’ the president says of the approach of giving Uncle Sam ownership stakes in major firms.
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A congressman calls it an attempt by the former president ‘to tilt the scales ahead of 2024.’
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The split defines the modern Republican party, as the old fiscal conservatives battle the new-right populists for control of the movement.
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The burgeoning movement is defined by skepticism of corporate capital, adoration of union labor, wariness of foreign entanglements, a belief in a more muscular America, and an appetite for bigger government.
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Missouri senator asks his Republican colleagues whether they want their new-found working-class support ‘to begin and end with Donald Trump.’
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Less than a year into one job, he is repeatedly asked if he’d be interested in another.
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