R.I.P. Freedomworks AKA Tea Party AKA Koch Brothers

Amazing, how right wing donors created this almost overnight to take down Obamacare and climate change progress via their precious little Tea Party, and it's disappearing the same way! Ha ha, remember how we were called "rude" for calling them teabaggers? Via Politico:

FreedomWorks, the once-swaggering conservative organization that helped turn tea party protesters into a national political force, is shutting down, according to its president, a casualty of the ideological split in a Republican Party dominated by former President Donald Trump.

“We’re dissolved,” said the group’s president, Adam Brandon. “It’s effective immediately.”

FreedomWorks’ board of directors voted unanimously on Tuesday to dissolve the organization, Brandon said. Wednesday will be the last workday for the group’s roughly 25 employees, though staffers will continue to receive paychecks and health care benefits for the next few months.

The development brings to a close a period of turmoil for the organization. FreedomWorks laid off 40 percent of its staff in March of 2023, and as a result of a drop in fundraising, its total revenue has declined by roughly half, to about $8 million, since 2022, Brandon said.

They were taken down by MAGA populism. Shame there's no grave to dance on!

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