Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants. He did it via an executive order in which he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to enter into agreements to buy electricity from coal plants for military operations. On hand as Trump made the announcement: coal executives, coal miners, and other energy industry people, all of whom would shoot you on sight if you accused them of being socialists but who are now all happy to be the beneficiaries of a scheme in which the government is forcing the purchase of the products of an industry which could not survive if it was not propped up by tax dollars.