Instilling so much fear in the prey it runs headlong into the very danger it seeks to escape is a time-proven hunter's trick.

"The US government would become the largest shareholder of Intel. This is actual socialism happening by a Republican administration. This is a horrible precedent. This is socialism. All of you people were freaked out about Mamdani in New York City wanting government run grocery stores and saying the people need to seize the means of production. That's what Harold Lutnik is doing right now -saying that the government must seize the controlling interest in Intel, the means of production in order to get government money. You can't just be against socialism when the left does it."; -conservative pundit Eric Erickson being mistaken concerning the nature of what he's discussing re: National- ization rather than Socialism, but, -mutatis mutandis- raising a valid, double standard-spotlighting point given right wing/GOP terror vis-a-vis the boogeyman of Venezuela.