The civil war within MAGA regarding visas for foreign tech workers is intensifying. Musk responded to complaints within the Reactionary camp by calling MAGA nationalists “contemptible fools.” Sounds like Hillary’s “deplorables,” no?
The CLs and Reactionaries were only held together by their disdain for the left and their mutual desire to burn it down. The split that any reasonable person would have predicted is taking place even before Trump takes office. So what happens next?
Trump will do his best to keep the factions working together, but for a variety of reasons, it won’t work in the end. When forced to choose between Musk and his base–it will probably occur within the budget negotiations– I would bet on the base.