I've heard far more of the latter, including other fascist reasons like "being an ethnostate", training all their citizens to become useful tools for the nation, etc.
It's fascinating because this means there exists a potential future where as Americans' material conditions further worsen, and they start to lose their faith in capitalism/neoliberalism and liberal democracies, they may willingly push for fascism or a dictatorship
I mostly just see them accuse the government of lying about the economic data
Yup. That economic crash is coming any day now.
I remember during the TikTok congressional hearings one of the clowns was like, "I'm one those who doesn't believe China really has a 'private sector.'"
New take on Deng just dropped.
Funny they say that when feds occupy positions at nearly every major social media site in the US.