{"id":15894,"date":"2024-12-27T23:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2024-12-27T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:53:06","slug":"is-trump-aiming-to-continue-bidens-antitrust-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15894","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump Aiming To Continue Biden&#8217;s Antitrust Insanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Right-wing populism is a strange bird, an ideology that&#8217;s not grounded in any enduring economic or philosophical principles. It mainly entails using the government to address a variety of ill-formed social, nationalistic, and cultural grievances. Former British politician&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jul\/03\/minister-predicts-his-own-sacking-in-speech-attacking-populists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Gauke<\/a>&nbsp;was spot on when he says that populism amounts to little more than &#8220;a willingness by politicians to say what they think the public wants to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s recent appointments reflect a mish-mash of conflicting opinions. Many conservatives were, for instance, shocked by his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5006280-what-to-know-about-trump-labor-pick-lori-chavez-deremer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selection<\/a>&nbsp;of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R\u2013Ore.) as Labor Secretary given that her pro-union positions aren&#8217;t different from those advocated by President Joe Biden.<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/12\/06\/is-trump-aiming-to-continue-bidens-antitrust-insanity\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/12\/06\/is-trump-aiming-to-continue-bidens-antitrust-insanity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Right-wing populism is a strange bird, an ideology that&#8217;s not grounded in any enduring economic or philosophical principles. It mainly entails using the government to address a variety of ill-formed social, nationalistic, and cultural grievances. Former British politician David Gauke was spot on when he says that populism amounts to little more than &#8220;a willingness by politicians to say what they think the public wants to hear.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s recent appointments reflect a mish-mash of conflicting opinions. Many conservatives were, for instance, shocked by his selection of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R\u2013Ore.) as Labor Secretary given that her pro-union positions aren&#8217;t different from those advocated by President Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/12\/06\/is-trump-aiming-to-continue-bidens-antitrust-insanity\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1079,375,221,217,165,1469,780,411,2051,1146,170],"class_list":["post-15894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-antitrust","tag-biden","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government-intervention","tag-joe-biden","tag-policy","tag-populism","tag-right-wing","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15895,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}