Trump just steamrolled J.D. Vance's man of the people claim: analyst

President-elect Donald Trump showed in one decision that his vice president's lip service to working-class welfare and oversight of powerful corporations means nothing, wrote Paul Waldman in a scathing opinion piece for MSNBC. This has even extended to Vance, along with some right-wing lawmakers like Sen. Josh Hawley, praising some Biden administration figures, like Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, who make it their mission to enact tough antitrust enforcement and uphold workers' rights. But Trump has already signaled he's not going to take that seriously, Waldman wrote; he instead followed the dictates of GOP megadonors like tech billionaire Elon Musk who wanted Khan fired, and will be replacing her with Andrew Ferguson, an FTC Commissioner who has vowed to crack down on "wokeness" and "censorship" in tech platforms, but has also called for reversing Khan's policies limiting mergers and other measures intended to safeguard competition and consumer rights. Likewise, they’ll condemn corporate 'wokeness' when companies celebrate Pride Month, but they don’t care if those same companies jack up prices, mistreat workers or pollute communities.. They’re happy to have the FTC, and the government in general, revert to a reflexive view that corporations should be able to do pretty much whatever they want — so long as it’s conservative officials who are determining where the lines are."