Four months ago, the small government campaign group #FreedomWorks shut down.

It had organized hundreds of thousands of new conservative activists in the early #Tea #Party years.
It lost market share in the #Trump years, as the new president failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and spent trillions of dollars on COVID relief.

Adam Brandon, the last president of FreedomWorks, began building a new project, which 🔶will try to organize millennial and Gen Z voters who feel alienated by two "populist" major parties. 🔶

Before launching it, he talked about the end of FreedomWorks and the movement that #MAGA replaced.

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/16/2024/all-these-core-things-we-worked-on-were-gone-a-tea-party-leader-reflects-on-the-maga-makeover

'All these core things we worked on were gone': A Tea Party leader reflects on the MAGA makeover | Semafor

Adam Brandon talks to Semafor about the end of FreedomWorks, the onetime conservative grassroots juggernaut.

The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yet https://newrepublic.com/article/183508/republican-platform-trump-fake-fight

People used to complain that the Republican Party was too ideological. You don’t hear that so much anymore, because now the problem (as, yes, I’ve written before) is that the GOP possesses no ideology at all. You don’t believe me? Consider that FreedomWorks, the extremist libertarian group that successfully championed Tea Party conservatism a decade and a half ago, closed its doors in May. It blamed Trump.

#maga #trump #fascism #freedomworks #teaparty #kochnetwork #gop

The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yet

Don’t be fooled by the Trump GOP platform fight: It’s a ruse.

The New Republic
#FreedomWorks seems to have internalized that the “lib” in “own the libs” was referring to classical liberalism: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018a-8b33-dd5e-abfe-8bf342880000

Greed Over People (GOP) Strikes Again: FreedomWorks Opposes Bipartisan Rail Safety Bill
"But what about the 'job creators?'"

Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and MAGAt JD Vance, along with Pennsylvania Senator  Bob Casey and John Fetterman, introduced The Railway Safety Act of 2023 i
https://newsviews.online/2023/03/14/greed-over-people-gop-strikes-again-freedomworks-opposes-bipartisan-rail-safety-bill/
#Congress ##FuckThePeople #bigbusiness #Congress #FreedomWorks #Greed #Ohio #RailSafety

Greed Over People (GOP) Strikes Again: FreedomWorks Opposes Bipartisan Rail Safety Bill

“But what about the ‘job creators?'” Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and MAGAt JD Vance, along with Pennsylvania Senator  Bob Casey and John Fetterman, introduced The Railway Safety A…

News Views

Conservative group pushes back on bipartisan rail safety bill | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3899376-conservative-group-pushes-back-on-bipartisan-rail-safety-bill/

#Department_of Transportation #East_Palestine #East_Palestine train derailment #FreedomWorks #Railway_Safety Act of 2023

Conservative group pushes back on bipartisan rail safety bill

A conservative advocacy group is pushing lawmakers to oppose a bipartisan rail safety bill that was introduced following the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, claiming it would create “gross inefficiencies” for businesses and give the Department of Transportation “unimaginable authority.” “Introduced following the horrible accident in East Palestine, Ohio, the legislation offers a slew of…

The Hill