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Gaetz’s Antitrust Positions Align With Progressives. They Just Don’t Trust Him.

Matt Gaetz and JD Vance have approved of the Biden administration’s approach to antitrust. Democrats aren’t sold that Trump’s administration will carry on the work.

Mary Gay Scanlon
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was on the antitrust subcommittee with Matt Gaetz. Mandel Ngan/AP

When the news alert hit, jaws dropped and whispers befell the one room of Democrats that might see a silver lining to Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general.

Pennsylvania Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was talking about the future of corporate power to a stoic Senate boardroom of progressives discussing corporate power when Trump announced that the hard-right Republican was his pick to lead the Department of Justice.

“This could be great for antitrust,” the stunned anti-monopoly advocate Matt Stoller told NOTUS at the event.