A 2024 Republican election victory marks the end of the four-year Neo-Brandeisian antitrust experiment at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department Of Justice (DOJ). Spearheaded by FTC chair Lina Khan and DOJ attorney general for antitrust Jonathan Kanter, their movement sought to upend antitrust’s longstanding bipartisan consumer welfare-focused consensus. Instead, they focused on punishing businesses for bigness; opposing mergers and other business practices based on speculative rather than probable theories that of competitive harm; and orienting antitrust toward policy considerations outside economic competition, such as income redistribution, labor, and environmentalism.
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