[jf55510]

Try advancing it on its supposed operational merits.

Such as protecting the consumer, helping American business, lower the prices for the American consumer?

[Carry_Okie]

Such as protecting the consumer, helping American business, lower the prices for the American consumer?

It does neither. It concentrates markets into oligopoly that eventually raises prices and protects against new entrants and market substitutes by economies of scale and power to influence the regulatory process, but that's not on your list of soundbites.