Has the NYT’s Tom Friedman gone MAGA?

Posted at 10:18 am on April 25, 2019 by Greg Pollowitz

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is under fire from the Left after he wrote in his latest op-ed, “we need walls” and to “rethink who is entitled to asylum” so “people fleeing economic dislocation don’t overwhelm our borders and harden our hearts to people truly feeling tyranny”:

Thomas Friedman has gone full-blown eco-fascist https://t.co/OdCVEBM7cB pic.twitter.com/v4Bv83OEXP

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) April 25, 2019

Buy that man a MAGA hat?

"enlightened eco-apartheid" is going to mainstream davos fodder in like 2 years

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) April 25, 2019

We believe this is exactly what candidate Trump said he wanted during the 2016 campaign:

? PUT ? SOLAR ? PANELS ? ON ? THE ? WALL ? pic.twitter.com/Pigw7JlI5w

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) April 25, 2019

LOL. Kathy Griffin will be the next convert?

First Cher, and now Thomas Friedman. These things happen in threes, so it's your move @kathygriffin … https://t.co/kHe0bcxiwF

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 25, 2019

Welcome to the GOP, Mr. Friedman:

"I'm as radically pro-immigration as they come," says NYT columnist Thomas Friedman. "But it is pretty clear to me that unless we can assure a significant number of Americans that we can control our border, we're never going to have the proper immigration flow I think we need." pic.twitter.com/sVvfTRj3bb

— CNN (@CNN) April 25, 2019

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