Among the many signal accomplishments of President-elect Trump’s 2024 campaign was welding the foot soldiers of the MAGA movement to the money and know-how of technology entrepreneurs who had historically voted for Democrats. There are signs that the pro-American populism of the movement that brought Trump to the White House in 2016 and again in 2024 may have a very uneasy alliance with the people Trump is entrusting to retool the American government.
Over the past few days, X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has been the scene of a fairly intense discussion between guys like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and others who are in favor of “high skill” immigration in the form of a massive increase in H1B visas that allow the hiring of foreign workers and a large number of devoted Trump fans who see H1B visas as a way corporate America has of…
