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I think it has a lot more to do with the US antitrust doctrine being focused on “consumer welfare” for the last 40 years. Robert Bork argued that monopolies were not inherently problematic, and that antitrust should only go after “bad” monopolies (which he argued could not survive for long.) Khan has explicitly rejected that doctrine.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/02/17/more-than-money-antitrust-monopolies-are-defined-from-bork-to-khan#
Khan has her priorities and ideologies all wrong though. She just wants to break up all big companies because...........she thinks they shouldn't be that big. No actual reasons behind it, just she thinks they shouldn't be that big.
Her appointment was 100% a political one, which is why it has turned out so badly. They need to fire her. She could even be disbarred as she hasn't even kept her lawyer status up to date and it's currently suspended basically.