the opinion I expect from an establishment/partisan Republican is very much the opposite of this.

Not at all, Thomas is "an establishment Republican" and the vast majority of Republicans would agree with him, especially the establishment ones.

Here is another example of giga-establishment Ben Shapiro saying the same thing: https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1124049326123233289

Where you will see disagreement is from the corporate dick sucker establishment "libertarians" from Reason.com: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/08/the-case-against-imposing-common-carrier-restrictions-on-social-media-sites/

I consider myself mostly libertarian, but I want to vomit when I see "libertarians" gleefully calling for 0 limitations on corporations of any kind, and open borders, and other absolute retard "ideology over common sense" takes like that.

the opinion I expect from an establishment/partisan Republican is very much the opposite of this.

Not at all, Thomas is "an establishment Republican" and the vast majority of Republicans would agree with him, especially the establishment ones.

Where you will see disagreement is from the corporate dick sucker establishment "libertarians" from Reason.com: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/08/the-case-against-imposing-common-carrier-restrictions-on-social-media-sites/

I consider myself mostly libertarian, but I want to vomit when I see "libertarians" gleefully calling for 0 limitations on corporations of any kind, and open borders, and other absolute retard "ideology over common sense" takes like that.