I think the person you replied to intentionally chose “Centrists,” not “GOP.” The problem here is corporate capture of Congress. Republicans are the default gatekeepers, but when populist ideas such as this on the left start to take root, that’s when the democrats come out to squash the effort. Think Manchin, Sinema for the usual suspect scapegoats. But if shit gets real, look at how Pelosi laughs off the STOCK act whenever it’s mentioned. Because of course, policy makers should get to partake in unlimited insider trading, right? Because how else would they be incentivized to continue repealing regulations to allow for wider corporate profit margins.

and they precisely won’t do it lol

regime whores are not here to help wage slaves jfc

You’d like to think so. But we’ve got ample evidence to suggest the role of the executive branch is to subsidize business regulation of itself.

If she is a president, she can try to push for it sure…

But my point is that if laws are not enforced as is, what would the benefit be anyway?

We have rules against monopolies, we have rules against price gouging, we have some basic employment laws… Feds nor states will enforce them for benefit of the public.

I think as president it would be way easier to step up enforcement but no president is willing tot use their political power to piss off our dear owners.

What’s the point of stronger laws if the existing ones aren’t enforced? The stronger ones wouldn’t be enforced either.

Obviously it’s a Congressional responsibility. She could, however, prioritize the enforcement of existing laws without any new laws needed.

The trick is: are the laws that are currently on the books good enough to enforce?

A lot of them are old or for a different time or slightly different scenarios. For example, a lot of the anti-trust laws can get skirted because modern business practices might not “technically” meet the definition of the law even if the spirit of the law is absolutely being violated.

And the supreme Court just eliminated the executive branches authority to ‘clarify’/‘interpret’ how they should be enforced in modern society. (At least that’s my understanding of the Chevron deference stuff).