Donald Trump’s new pick for Federal Trade Commission chair, current Republican Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, is an ideological wild card.
His stated ideas don’t fall cleanly into the anti-consolidated-corporate-power-on-principle camp, nor does he represent a hard reversion to the more hands-off approach of the FTC of the Reagan era. Some of his proposals are more accurately described as simply Trumpian — more malleable than traditional right, left, free market or populist.
What is clear is that he’s a Trump loyalist with strong ties to the conservative judicial movement.