enry: Why does the GOP hate the free market?

Because the modern GOP is an anti-capitalist party, regardless of how often they use "socialism" as a dog whistle.

They have no principled objection to government direction of the economy, as long as that government is run by Redcaps and their fellow-travellers to further their political goals, viz. making themselves rich and keeping Those People poor and powerless.

Real free enterprise has the tendency to up-end traditional power relations. Those who had power in pre-capitalist societies (including the antebellum South) have never liked the idea of their inferiors earning their own money, much less keeping enough of it to live better than hand to mouth.

I'd love to see the GOP leadership asked: "Aside from sanctions, what was so bad about apartheid South Africa?"

Someone who actually thought free enterprise a good thing would be happy to explain how horribly inefficient the South African economy was, competitive only in commodity extraction (like Russia today).

A Redcap will, at best, engage in whataboutism on the subject of the predicament of poor white South Africans today before changing the subject back to whatever he saw on Newsmax that morning.

Emposter: I look forward to seeing Newsmax executives forced to testify under oath about why they knowingly peddle harmful lies for profit.

Just kidding, committees write their own rules, and I doubt that the right wing assholes are going to let minority members issue any subpoenas.  Can't let democratic norms get in the way of abusing the GQP's new power.

Do you have Sirius satellite radio? Sirius have a channel for both conservative and liberal talk radio, same way they have channels for corporate country and the Grateful Dead. (Oh, and Bloomberg radio.)

Like it or not, there is genuine demand for this garbage among certain demographics, one that unscrupulous entrepreneurs can monetize, and have been since Rush Limbaugh's day. Everyone's racist uncle won't listen to real news? Fine---broadcast fake news as well, and he'll hand over his money too. What could possibly go wrong?