“Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” President Joe Biden said in 2021. “It’s exploitation.”

Biden was rolling out, with much chest-thumping, his aggressive antimonopoly agenda. He promised “full and aggressive enforcement of our antitrust laws.” The New York Times described it as a campaign “to increase competition within the nation’s economy and to limit corporate dominance.”

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