it cant be overstated, government directly intervening in the economy on the behalf of private interests using public funds was something even the marxists would find bizarre. remember hugo chavez accused george bush of being to the left of communists for his 700 billion dollar wall street bail out where the government bought toxic assets from dying banks. the closest thing a state would get to direct control of the economy pre20th century would be credit expansions, prohibition, debasing currency, tariffs, all extremely unpopular things. diocletian-esque price controls which are totally normal now (your own currency is a monopoly with a controlled exchange rate to every other currency on the planet) and the federal government making up upwards of 30% of the gdp of the country is considered "healthy" now. people like hoover, fdr, hitler, franco, keynes, etc basically every big player that lived through the great depression normalized the state as the master of the economy. to see trump tout himself as the savior of the american economy, it puts a bad taste in my mouth.   they had crushing debt and the farm land was unproductive since the government was paying them more to destroy their farms than they would make by selling the food they produce. if this sounds insane to you, remember that modern progressives want a second new deal.
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