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You know, for a guy with the username "Sunzu", I feel like you're demonstrating a remarkable lack of vision of power dynamics.
First, I'm not a Democrat. I'm not invested in holding up that party.
Again, I'm talking more to any audience than you in particular: when someone says that any attempt to use power creatively is a waste of time, I think that is either ignorant or in bad faith. The SIZE of any given effect or the use of resources in one place or another can be certainly debated, but the logic of the revitalized antitrust movement is very, very sound. Power has been left unused, and now people like Khan and Jonathan Kantor are learning how to use it again, and showing others.
The logic you're outlining runs in contradiction to what we might call "The Bork consensus". A lot of the issues we face WERE developed through regulatory capture rather than legislation, led by Robert Bork under Reagan. If you don't want to use that power for anything, feel free, but I'm going to evangelize using every tool available. And these are pretty big ones.