America voted for Ronald Reagan in the biggest landslide victory the US had seen in a very long time. Reagan promised "deregulation" and "get government out of

America voted for Ronald Reagan in the biggest landslide victory the US had seen in a very long time. Reagan promised "deregulation" and "get government out of business" etc, and had a very clear mandate to execute, which he did, IMO to our detriment, by doing things like telling the FTC to just let companies do whatever, and outright not enforce anti-competitive laws if you couldn't show "consumer harm", which explicitly meant you had to show prices going up before you could prevent the monopoly from forming. What did people expect?