Conor here: Many on the left seem eager to believe that Kamala would continue the one bright spot from the Biden administration: crackdowns from the DOJ Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission on things like concentration and price fixing.

Yet the Harris campaign has yet to voice any support for Jonathan Kanter (head of DOJ antitrust) or Lina Khan (FTC head). We’re getting a steady diet of stories about Kamala being caught between billionaire donors and progressives.

The plutocrats want Khan gone, and the Harris campaign declines to comment. Is there something, anything in Harris’ record that would lead us to believe she would stand up to the billionaires, or does her history suggest the opposite?

While many took Harris’ big August economic speech as a cause for celebration because she mentioned mergers and price-fixing, maybe I’m too pessimistic, but I think it’s actually cause for more concern. It

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