Interview · moment 10 of 28
Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust vs. the Chicago School, and Techno-Feudalism
from Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433 · #433
4 min
Guest
Bannon explains his support for Lina Khan-style trust-busting rooted in Louis Brandeis's warnings about corporate-state power, contrasting it with the consumer-pricing focused Chicago School, and describes Silicon Valley oligarchs as digital feudal lords.
- Steve Bannon talking about Lina Khan reveals the Democratic Party is controlled by corporatists.
- Neo-Brandeisian theory, explained: Justice Brandeis warned against private concentrations of power partnering with government to create totalitarianism.
- The Chicago School of antitrust emerged in the 1980s, focusing only on consumer pricing rather than broader competition.
- Tim describes the logic of the Chicago School: miserate your lives, but give you Netflix and DoorDash so you don't complain about unaffordable college.
- If dragged off a plane for abusing a flight attendant, Tim will scream "I'm a Neo-Brandesite" to make the moment memorable.
- After Tiananmen Square, Bush 41 sent Scowcroft to negotiate with China, promising WTO membership and most-favored-nation status in exchange for liberalization.
- The plan backfired completely: America recreated the Chinese Communist Party's model of state capitalism under authoritarian control, now embodied in Silicon Valley oligarchs.
- Tim explains the oligarchs' current play: after being exposed as phonies on social media and AI, they're demanding massive government bailouts.
- Silicon Valley is now claiming a Sputnik moment requires a Marshall Plan—turning over national weapons labs like Lawrence Livermore and Sandia to tech companies.
- The proposed bailout for the same Silicon Valley figures amounts to between 500 billion and a trillion dollars.
Lena Khanprivate equityChinese Communist PartyLouis BrandeisSteve BannonSilicon ValleyLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryMike DavisGail SlaterAndrew FergusonFranklin D. Roosevelt