I'm shocked to hear that a politician has personal goals and will say whatever their constituency wants to hear to achieve the power of office to pursue those goals.
Shocked, I say! (lol. As if dems are any different/better when it comes to ignoring half the country to cater to the other half's whims.)

Sounds like Trump is a politician after all. Wow. How could we have possibly known that a person running for political office would behave like a politician?

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@wuf: How do you disregard all the wealth of evidence that without regulation, there are many, many ways for a company to be a bad actor without being noticed by their customers until well after the damage is done?

The copper mining example is apt, and fits metaphorically as an archtype of that kind of problem. Even if you want to ignore that, look at the FDA and why it was founded. People were being openly defrauded on a mass scale. They were being lied to, and being sold something that was not what they were told it is. It was not localized to one company, but widespread across the entire industry.

On that regard, look at mob mentality or let's go full Hitler and look at Naziism. 90+% of the Nazi's were just normal folks who didn't really believe in the rhetoric, but also just wanted to get on with their lives. Still, they participated in the most iconic evil known to recent history. My point is that we can wax poetic about the goodness of people in the long run all day long, but it ignores just how much harm can be done in the short run.