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by mtswish 595 days ago
> The Biden admin barely, kind of, got anti-trust authorities somewhat working again, and that will be demolished on day 1 of Trump.

You are grossly underselling the work of Lina Khan and the FTC.

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Could you name the top-3 examples of the FTC's work over the past 4 years that were net-helpful to the future GDP/capita of the US economy?
And what will it matter when on day 1 of the next administration, it's all blown out the airlock?

If your change is no more durable than a single election, you didn't accomplish shit.

> If your change is no more durable than a single election, you didn't accomplish shit.

That is the way that the country works! The system is working as intended if a single government appointment can't unilaterally destroy monopolies in a single term.