EXCLUSIVE — Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Mark Meador said the populist shift that has transformed the Republican Party in recent years is a permanent change, not just a passing phase in electoral politics.

Meador, an antitrust lawyer and Trump appointee who was confirmed to his post at the commission in April, sat down with the Washington Examiner for an interview in his office on Friday. Meador has no qualms with challenging big corporations, a change from Republicans before him.