"-You basically do agree he did use the defense production act but deny the extent he used it does not justify as socialism. He still did it though so your original point isnt perfect."
There are things that our government does that is socialistic but that doesn't mean it is Socialism. Anytime the government performs a service that the private sector that is socialistic. Obamacare is socialistic but it isn't Socialism. The more socialistic our government becomes the worse the economy gets.
What Trump did was not a take over, it was not the government providing a service but rather it was probably money given to medical manufacturers to help with COVID. That was socialistic but it wasn't Socialism. Some things the government does that are socialistic that the government has been doing since day one. Public education is socialistic but it isn't Socialism. With public education we get a return on our investment.
The problem is that our government takes far more than the value of any service they perform. That is socialistic but it still isn't Socialism.
Socialism is absolutely no private ownership of anything, including your life. The government completely runs and owns all businesses. They set the price of the product and the wages the employee earns.
Trump, very plain and simple, just did not do that. Obama, when he was first elected, tried to do that by first trying to take control of the banks. Then he tried to take control of the auto industry. Obamacare was his first pass at trying to take over healthcare but it is not a take over....yet.
Stimulus checks are always the wrong way to go about fixing a down turned economy. It is a band-aid that will turn around and bite you down the road. It is Keynesianism.
The best thing Trump could, and what he should have done, was to cut everyone's taxes by that amount. Of course that does not do anything for the people that lost their jobs and their businesses because of the Democrat lock downs. But it will stimulate the economy for the rest of us in the right way, the way that produces jobs.