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FreedomWorks leaders, for example, still believed in free trade, small government and a robust merit-based immigration system. Increasingly, however, those positions clashed with a Trump-aligned membership who called for tariffs on imported goods and a wall to keep immigrants out

I'm guessing he is a NeverTrumper as he readily uses flawed logic to attack Trump. He supports "merit based immigration" and attacks MAGA for wanting a wall. It's obvious that the wall is to stop illegal immigration. Like all the arguments from leftists, he is conflating legal immigration and illegal immigration to push his own narrative. MAGA supports merit-based immigration for areas of need and eliminating illegal immigration. Maybe FreedomWorks wouldn't have collapsed if they understood the harm of illegal immigration.

Besides being dishonest, he is naive for thinking free trade can exist when only 1 side engages in free trade. Intentionally handicapping yourself in trade negotiations is dumb. Sometimes you just have to recognize reality instead of pretending everyone follows your utopian principles.

Trump did add to much to the debt, but I'm not foolish enough to believe any republican would have done it differently during covid. No politician would have told the American people that they would just have to starve and lose their homes because their governor locked down the state, especially a few months before an election. Anyone trying to argue differently isn't using common sense.

The Tea Party was destroyed by Obama and the GOPe, the same GOPe now telling us MAGA is bad. Many people in here lamenting the closing of FreedomWorks also support the dissolution of MAGA, which doesn't make any sense as it is the same people attacking both groups.