Real conservatives, like Milton Friedman, argue that you cannot have both open borders AND a large welfare state. The corporatists have figured out that they can profit from open borders while the middle class mostly pays for the welfare state. Populists, like their liberal cousins, do not know the difference between corporatism and being a conservative.
“Real conservatives, like Milton Friedman, argue that you cannot have both open borders AND a large welfare state”
Friedman isn’t a conservative. He has no record of supporting the second amendment. I can guess his gay marriage take. And open borders is never conservative, no matter what the qualifier.
Friedman is simply an economic libertarian, nothing more.