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The New Deal, which Bernie was resurrecting, was meant to break monopolies up, to promote completion and make price fixing impossible. the democrats voted against that as they are controlled by the big companies too. this is easy MAGA exists, and won.

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Lina Khan led the most antitrust-focused DoJ in a century, which went after Apple, Google, Nvidia, Realpage, airlines, and dozens of other companies.

MAGA give zero fucks about antitrust, and antitrust or lack thereof has nothing to do with the creation of MAGA. That's such an absurd argument I have no idea how to even respond to it. The cornerstone of MAGA has always been nativism & reactionary politics.

I'm very, very tired of leftists shamelessly lying about anything and everything they can just to smear the Democrats.

What did Lena Kahn actually accomplish though? Maybe they had to pay some fines some traffic tickets essentially.

Many mergers were squashed. The M&A market shrank considerably. There’s only so much they can do as far as bringing and prosecuting cases in four years.

M&A market shrink because interest rates went up drastically while expectations of companies remained in the stratosphere in my opinion.

Lina Khan had little to do with it. What significant mergers were squashed that made a difference? What significant monopolies were busted?

Doubtful. Most deals aren’t financed with debt.

There are many but off the top of my head Kroger buying Safeway. Visa buying Plaid. Nvidia buying Arm. Didn't they block a cell phone merger? A mattress merger?

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