It IS glorified welfare for big business, because that's one of the only things Republicans care about.

In this case, it is glorified welfare, not to mention an opportunity to make one of the USA's largest chipmakers work for nefarious ends by the government. There is no public benefit here.

This is pretty much classical fascism. This is similar to what Germany did to the chemical/pharmaceutical conglomerate I.G. Farben, which previously had ties to a liberal political party before it was Aryanized after 1933.

I feel like I haven't heard good things about the previous times the US government has done this. Do we actually expect this to be a revenue generator? 

How the party of Lincoln became the American Nazi party I'll never understand. -_-

Only for Trump so he can most likely sniff out anyone he wants raped and/or killed. But what else can you expect from a "president" who won't release the Epstein files because he knows he'll be IN those files?

I don't think Republicans support this. It is Trump's own idiosyncratic position. If it were put to a vote probably would pass the Senate but not the House of Representatives. 

What nefarious ends do you think Intel will more likely engage in now than they would as a fully private company or in comparison to other tech companies? Pretty much all private corporations are cooperating with Trump even without U.S government ownership.

As to the Nazi comparison, Germany had a long history of public investment in corporations (before and after the Nazis.) Nazism really wasn't an economic movement. The Nazis privatized and nationalized according to whim, but probably on net privatized more than they made public. And yes, Trump is also doing similar, but that doesn't make expanding public ownership bad at face value. The more public ownership we have in five years, the better we'll be able to weather the mass-unemployment crisis that will be coming.  

Eh, the only recent example I can think of is creating the New GM (and owning large shares in it for like three years), and that probably was the right decision on net (which is why the Canadian and American governments did it jointly.) It saved jobs, pensions, and the U.S government barely took a loss (far less than the social costs would've been to let Old GM go without a replacement.) 

If Cracker Barrel goes bust, I can see the Trump admin bailing it out. They weren't doing very well even before the conniption over the new logo. Now it's the latest darling of the culture wars.

I thought they hated "commies". I say it all the while, MAGA is the most hypocritical and fraudulent movement ever. If Obama did this they would show up to the White House with a guillotine.

My primary contention with the GM deal wasn't that we bailed them out, it was that we didn't extract much out of the deal beyond the inherent benefits of strong businesses. I think it makes sense in certain circumstances to support businesses in this manner but unless there is revenue generation (which, like you said, that deal seemed to be a net loss in terms of revenue), we should really be able to extract more concessions from these companies. 

If the government kept its shares more than the period of the recession, they'd have ended up about neutral. Worse than the S&P 500 (which yes, is an opportunity cost) but better than inflation. 

Most examples of long-term public or mixed ownership bring in decent profits. We see this with the various natural resource funds at the state-level (which fund schools or in the case of Alaska put money back into people's pockets), but also full blown SOEs like the Tennessee Valley Authority. 

If profiting is the main concern though, most of the 2008-era investments in the banks brought back profits. The government is still making a profit on Fannie Mae for example. They made basically $300 Billion since 2008 vs. $187 Billion injected in 2008. Hell, the Fannie/Freddie Mac existence in general was a New Deal success. I'd of course prefer full public ownership, but mixed ownership has shown to work pretty well too, and if the goal is public accountability both are better than full private. 

Now all that is needed is for  to buy Intel's foundry business for this meme prophecy to be fulfilled.