Thread by @HawleyMO

No. What I say is that the Supreme Court changed course in 1911 and limited the reach of federal antitrust law, a major about face that helped entrench corporate power. Wilson’s antitrust reforms didn’t change this outcome, but built on it & worked within it

https://twitter.com/GiladEdelman/status/1390290615515156480

For that reason, I conclude “the new FTC ... emerged as a project to regulate and normalize the corporate behemoths rather than dissolve them.” Here again, I am following progressive scholarship, particularly Martin Sklar, whom I cite

You can disagree with this interpretation, but it’s not a “factual error.” And again, there’s a lot of scholarship on this that this reviewer either doesn’t know or ignores

And it’s a minor point, but I don’t say the Clayton Act “established” the FTC. I say “Wilson’s legislation ... gave the FTC enforcement authority” and “set up” the FTC - as indeed the Clayton Act empowers & defines FTC enforcement, which I argue helped normalize new corp order