Progressives should adopt taking stakes in companies that align with progressive values like clean energy and strategic minerals. Under the Trump Administration shares in the company Critical Metals surged over 60 percent after word spread that the U.S. government might take an equity stake in the company’s Greenland rare-earths deposit. The Trump Administration has created a permission structure for state‐backed industrial policy advancing public ends via market mechanisms. However, his moves are not strategic, incompetent, and more for personal grift than for the benefit of the American people. We are in end-stage capitalism and conventional free-markets are failing. Corporate consolidation, stagnant wages, and ecological collapse have all exposed how laissez-faire capitalism leaves society at the mercy of profit-seeking and short-termism. Democrats have spent too long trying to patch the system rather than reshape it. They argue about regulation, redis...
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