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Robert Reich has found a fix for the most successful rocket company on the planet, and it is exactly what you would expect from a career government man.On an October 24 episode of his podcast, "The Coffee Klatch," Reich, a Democrat who served as Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, urged his party to "defund Musk" if Democrats win back power.Then he went a lot further."If we have a Democratic administration, and the Democrats ought to be starting this not just with oversight hearings, but also starting laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX," Reich said. "It should be a public corporation. We should not ever have that kind of power in one person's hands."So the same government that runs the Post Office now wants to run rockets. What could possibly go wrong?The Postal Service lost $9 billion in fiscal 2025, after losing $9.5 billion the year before. That is the business model Reich wants for the company that catches rocket boosters out of the sky.We already know what government-run spaceflight looked like. After the shuttle retired in 2011, NASA spent nine years buying seats on Russian rockets to get American astronauts into orbit. It took SpaceX to bring crewed launches back to American soil.Reich claims 75% of Musk's wealth depends on taxpayers buying Starlink for the Pentagon. Fox Business noted he offered no evidence for that number.Starlink had 13.6 million consumer subscribers by the end of the third quarter, which means rural families, farmers and truckers, not just the military.Yes, SpaceX holds billions in federal contracts. But being the government's best vendor does not make you the government's property.Notice the timing on all of this. The push to go after Musk got loud after he ran DOGE, stood with President Trump and poured more than $350 million into electing Republicans.Strip away the podcast polish and this is the old socialist playbook. Decide someone has too much, then let Washington take it.That should scare the crap out of every American, no matter how you vote.Sources: Fox Business; Daily Wire;