(The Federalist)—President Trump’s Department of Justice recently intervened in a case accusing tech giants and media outlets of colluding to silence conservatives, including a nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. These companies weren’t protecting us from “misinformation.” They were protecting their own power.
Trump’s DOJ is not cozying up to these media giants like plenty of other past Republican administrations would have. It’s fighting back.
This single case undercuts the lazy narrative that the Trump administration is soft on monopolies or in the pocket of Big Tech. It also shows a deeper shift underway — one where Republicans have stopped reflexively defending corporate power and started taking aim at the kinds of concentrated private empires that censor speech, crush competition, and tilt the playing field against ordinary Americans.
Yet Democrats are still clinging to a lazy caricature of the Trump administration as a bunch of corporate errand boys cozying up to monopolies. That might have been an easy talking point to make about Republicans for a high school civics debate years ago, but it has nothing to do with the Trump administration today.
The loudest attacks have been aimed at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, fueled by the false claim that Trump is handing out political favors to monopolies. It might sound good in a left-wing X post, but it’s wholly divorced from reality.
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