[DoodleBob]

the old right’s market fundamentalism in favor of the new right’s pro-worker economic nationalism — one that calls for antitrust crackdowns on Big Tech.

In other words, just because you have a Yale law degree it doesn’t make you knowledgeable about the Constitution.

Assuming the story is true, Vance is engaging in rabid leftism, and using the Commerce Clause in ways the Founders never intended.

Bottom line, there is no enumerated power in the Constitution granting leftists or alleged conservative bureaucrats the ability to break-up companies. “Anti-Trust” law is the bastard child of a progressive/“living Constitution” approach to the Commerce Clause.

If you don’t like that reality, try the empirical reality: do you REALLY trust the Justice Department to break up firms? They’ll do it in a way to make them stronger.

Here a better idea. Big Tech is imploding on its own. Leave business alone. Do something worthwhile, like lowering taxes and shedding regulation.

Populism doesn’t need to be stupid. It is here. And this guy is starting to come across more and more as bright as a dim bulb. Trump should have picked Elise Stefanik.

[wildcard_redneck]

DoodleBob, you are always on the wrong side. I remember when they broke up Ma Bell and innovation skyrocketed and prices fell. In 1981 a friend of mine had a girlfriend that lived 30 miles away in another town and the little idiot racked up a$250 dollar bill calling her. That would be like $1000 in today’s money.

Make sure you keep up with your clot shot boosters.

[ohioman]

JD is doing great. 99% of FR will ignore you.

[Carry_Okie]

In other words, just because you have a Yale law degree it doesn’t make you knowledgeable about the Constitution.

If you are including the 14^th Amendment's sneaky inclusion of corporations as "citizens of the United States," as "the Constitution" you might be correct. But I don't think you are. Sic:

Assuming the story is true, Vance is engaging in rabid leftism, and using the Commerce Clause in ways the Founders never intended.

Equine feces:

England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. and accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. it ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people. but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall, on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country. - Thomas Jefferson The founders knew enough about the behavior of globalist corporations in the person of the Hudson Bay Company, the Virginia Comany, and ilk to minimize the total power they could wield by limiting their reach to the jurisdictions of the 13 States. True Federalism was the anti-trust tool of that day. It was the 14^th Amendment that turned DC into one-stop shopping for political influence as a way to attract capital to pay our debts and rebuild the nation after the Civil War, turning those corporate interests loose on the treasures of the American West.

[Kazan]

Bottom line, there is no enumerated power in the Constitution granting leftists or alleged conservative bureaucrats the ability to break-up companies.

So, you'd apply those comments to Ronald Reagan?

How Ronald Reagan’s Record Could Influence Modern Internet Monopolies

Reagan’s Record of Breaking Up Monopolies

The mobile internet monopoly also discourages other businesses from entering the fray, which runs counter to the notion of a free economy, in which competition fuels growth. The lack of competing businesses means fewer jobs, which not only affects Americans’ bottom lines but also trickles down into a lack of investment in the economy.

So how can the mobile internet monopoly best be addressed? Looking to the past is one way to find solutions. For Ronald Reagan, breaking monopolies up was a cornerstone of his economic policies. Shortly after he took office, in January 1982, the nation saw the dissolution of one of its most long-time monopolies. The federal government had sued Bell Systems for antitrust violations, resulting in a settlement that broke up the AT&T telephone monopoly, at the time the largest private company in the world.

Reagan instituted a new method for federal review of proposed corporate mergers, which could be one area revisited to address today’s mobile Internet monopoly. Reagan saw the need for getting ahead of potential monopolies by circumventing potential problem areas at the start. Reviewing and updating merger guidelines to specifically address the realities of today’s Internet-powered age can put the nation one step closer to reducing monopolies and giving economic freedom back to the American people.

[DesertRhino]

These international companies do everything they can to destroy American freedom, and the minute you try to do anything about it, they wrap them selves in the flag and suddenly there patriotic? Not buying.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"In other words, just because you have a Yale law degree it doesn’t make you knowledgeable about the Constitution."

This is exactly right. We have a little too many people here at Free Republic who are covetous of their beloved big government and it is a little both scary and shocking to discover.

We simply do not need to have our big daddy love-of-our-lives government go down the path of centralized planning.

I often advocate that we as conservatives need to get the hell off of these big tech platforms - and start using Linux. Linux on our computers, and Linux on our cell phones.

We can absolutely, on our own, without big beloved government, defeat these big tech companies. But for some strange reason, we all refuse to do our jobs. We refuse to get active. So big tech gets bigger and nobody does a thing about it and then they attack us. Then! Wow, we need government to save us.

It's just plain lazy.

Stop with the big tech platforms from Google Apple and Microsoft. What the heck.

It is NOT that difficult to give these tech companies the Bud Light'ing that they deserve. I just don't know why, everybody around here refuses and embracing big-God government is the easier route for lazy bums.

Other than lazy I just don't know what it is that prevents a Bud Light'ing of Big Tech. I just do not understand. It both scares me and infurates me that any of us would embrace big government. It is so insulting.

[thegagline]

The paucity of conservatives on this site is astonishing. DoodleBob and Mr. Jeeves are conservatives.

[GailA]

Big Ag, Pharma, and grocery chains are more dangerous.