Antitrust is not purely about consumers, but about protecting a competitive and open market. However I will admit that this has been widely debated and is not a

Antitrust is not purely about consumers, but about protecting a competitive and open market. However I will admit that this has been widely debated and is not actually consensus in US history. A counter-argument is that antitrust action should be purely focused on consumer prices and do nothing unless consumer pricing is negatively affected. I would argue that the former is still being consumer-pricing focused, just with a long term view instead of a short term view