> If this hypothesis were correct, we would have expected to see lawsuits against those other monopolies during, say, the Obama administration. But we didn't.
This presupposes that the DoJ has always been a political weapon.
This presupposes that the DoJ has always been a political weapon.
Of course it has. Look at the war on drugs and lack of prosecution when democrats enter power. Both parties use the DoJ to push their own agenda and perception. Frankly the expectation that the DoJ be non-partisan (much like the supreme court!) is naive and the democrats cripple themselves by even articulating this expectation.
No, it only presupposes that if the DoJ is going to be used as a political weapon, any administration, of either party, is about equally as likely to use it as any other. Given the general track record of the Federal government, this seems like a much more plausible assumption than your implicit assumption that it only started being a political weapon just now.