The old antitrust laws are still on the books. If they were worth a damn, if they still worked today, maybe America would not be experiencing such rapid growth in the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few at the top and would not be the most unequal nation among all the industrialized countries of the world. The way antitrust laws are being applied and enforced today actually undermines trust in free markets.

If antitrust laws were worth a damn, maybe billionaires and corporate conglomerates wouldn’t have taken ownership of our government and wouldn’t be calling the tune on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the country. Maybe there would be more trust in government.

One thing’s for sure, if antitrust laws with any kind of teeth applied to politics, we’d surely have more than two major parties.