Crony capitalism and the American corporations

It seems to me that a lot of these rightists always blabbering on about how good the free market is. But now, OpenAI urges the banning of deepseek, Elon musk takes hold of the trump administration in the tariff laws, seeking protection from the state when the free market doesn’t benefit him (Tesla, spacex and x are all doing badly)

The hypocrisy on the right is just as bad as the left. They only adhere to their values when it benefits them