MAGA Dust-up

A sign of things to come?

A number of journalists are writing today about a dust-up in MAGA world in the last 24 hours. Here is my rough understanding of it.

The tech bros in Trump’s orbit, Vivek Ramiswami and Elon Musk, want the US to hire more tech specialists from other countries, and to do so they are proposing the US increase the number of H1-B visas that are extended to professionals from other countries. These visas are meant to bring highly educated specialists into the US, in this case tech, to increase our competitiveness as a global power. Those whom Musk and Vivek want to bring in are primarily from Asia. There is a vocal faction in MAGA against this, and in the last 24 hours, that faction was very loud in tweets from Laura Loomer, Trump’s very right-wing confidant. Laura is a believer that America is only for Americans, and she got very angry and racist in her tweets. To retaliate, Musk took away her blue check on X, along with some other people in her right-wing orbit. Lots of angry social media drama.

Van Jones, CNN commentator, did a Substack video commentary, Billionaires Vs. Bubbas, on this. He explains it more fully than I do.

It is a battle between tech executives in Trump’s orbit and traditional MAGA. Heather Cox Richardson wrote about it this morning and reported that Laura Loomer wrote on X: “none of the…