The 2024 choice on regulation: Trump wants America unleashed, Harris wants it strangled

An army of unelected bureaucrats stands athwart American progress and freedom, yelling “Stop” — which presidential candidate will beat the blob and unleash prosperity and dynamism again?It’s a no-brainer: Donald Trump.Just look at the utterly dismal regulatory record of the Harris-Biden years. Mountains of red tape.Metastasis of the HR mindset into every corner of the government. The asphyxiating climate has gotten so deadly that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just blasted it at a bankers’ conference in New York City: “It’s time to fight back.

I’ve had it with this s–t.” So has pretty much everyone else. No one incarnates this willed stagnation better than Harris fave and current Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. Khan’s fought from the start to hamstring people like Elon Musk — visionaries actually pushing American tech and industry ahead into the future.  The tech titan bought Twitter in 2022; the FTC then began a campaign of blatantly targeted regulatory harassment against the Tesla founder. Of course, this was political in nature: Khan simply dislikes Musk’s views and wanted to use her power to punish him for them. But it’s part of a pattern with her of taking big swings against big companies for the sin of their success (though, thank God, she usually whiffs them). She went after Meta for buying VR company Within, and failed. She did the same when Microsoft bought gaming major Activision Blizzard. But the insidious power of the regulatory state is such that Khan doesn’t even need to win in court: She and her biz-hating cronies reportedly celebrate the dozen-plus deals preemptively abandoned by big firms scared of the federal onslaught as “victories.”Wrong, wrong, wrong.Those are failures. The blob doesn’t know how to innovate.

The blob doesn’t know how to engineer. Can you imagine where we’d be today if the FTC and FCC and the whole rest of the alphabet soup had strangled, say, Intel or Apple or any Nvid...