Florida Republicans led by CFO Jimmy Patronis want to study the idea of creating a public state bank. Last I checked these tend to be the way leftists in Latin America and South Asia once rolled as well as the eastern bloc during the Cold War.

Patronis seems to be arguing that capitalism is now “woke” so to protect “freedom” he must move to state controls akin to what Soviet Union did. The full report on the study and potential formation of the bank is here from Florida Politics.