Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• For several decades a pro-monopoly consensus has ruled Washington, D.

C., allowing our country to become increasingly captured by a handful of powerful companies stripping away our economic freedoms. Nearly 75% of industries have become more consolidated in recent decades and at the current rate of consolidation there will be just one company per industry by 2070.

This crisis of monopoly, which threatens our freedoms, economic prosperity and democracy, is what a new generation of leaders like Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan are trying to address. Naturally, the work of democratizing the economy and handing power back to people generates attacks from the powerful monopolists cornering commerce. This includes a recent commentary from Barbara Comstock titled "How the FTC chair is alienating the left, right and center" ( StarTribune.

com , May 21). Comstock's general thesis is that there is widespread opposition to Khan's actions, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary including polling from Fight Corporate Monopolies showing 61% of Minnesotans believe policymakers should do more to reign in monopoly power. One of the more puzzling attacks by Comstock, who has advised NetChoice which advocates against efforts to reign in Big Tech companies, is when she writes "One person doesn't get to overturn the law.

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