Fascism is when the government helps the helpful businesses and the helpful businesses help the government.
In a marketplace economy, government would be mostly insignificant. Government should protect citizens from force or other means of coercion. That’s just about all.
But politicians like to get rich, so politicians make deals.
Private Ownership, Gov't Control. So it is helpful to be cozy with them, if not outright in bed with them, can you say GE and he who I will not name during his 8 yrs that were a reign of error....