Seismic because the judge's opinion is full of rhetoric associated with the surging #antitrust revival, sneeringly dismissed by corporate apologists as "#HipsterAntitrust." Young called America's airlines and "#oligopoly," a situation he blamed on out-of-control mergers. As @matthewstoller writes, this is the first airline merger to be blocked by the DOJ and DOT since deregulation in 1978:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-block-the-jetblue

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As Frank says:

> Social movements succeed. They build and they change the intellectual climate and then, when the crisis comes, they make possible things like agrarian reform or the New Deal or the Civil Rights acts of the 1960s.

Today, we see the seeds of those social movements: the new #union movement. #BlackLivesMatter. #Neobrandeisians with their #HipsterAntitrust.

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The paper sent seismic shocks through both legal and economic circles, and goosed the #NeoBrandeisian movement (sneeringly dismissed as "#HipsterAntitrust"). This movement is a rebuke to #Reaganomics, with its celebration of #monopolies, #TrickleDown, #offshoring, corporate dark money, revolving-door #RegulatoryCapture, and companies that are simultaneously #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail.

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