Anti-Woke: Josh Hawley To Unveil “Trust Busting Act”

Axios reports:

Corporate giants would be barred from acquisitions and century-old antitrust laws would get sharper teeth under a new proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) shared exclusively with Axios.

Hawley is among the Senate’s most conservative members, but his attack on corporate power wouldn’t sound out of place on Elizabeth Warren’s or Bernie Sanders’ agenda.

That’s how deeply Republicans’ anger at what they see as out-of-control “censorship” by Big Tech and overreaching activism by “woke corporations” has alienated some of the party from its traditional big-business base.

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