In a war between tech bros and core MAGA, the winner is easy to spot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/30/musk-loomer-h1b-visas-trump-bannon/

The spiteful bickering in recent days between Donald Trump’s Silicon Valley enablers and his MAGA acolytes is an unexpected reminder of how quickly the folks around the president-elect can put everything to the side while trying to hurt one another. Apparently preferring to sling insults rather than enjoy Christmas with their families, Trump’s anti-immigrant supporters spent much of the last week battling on X with his new tech-industry pals over the arcane issue of limited-term visas for highly skilled immigrants.

For now, Trump is siding with the Elon Musk camp. But those who think this is just a passing spat are ignoring a fundamental truth about the Silicon Valley plutocrats: They are a selfish bunch who have shown time and again that what interests them most is themselves.

The brouhaha started when Laura Loomer, a member of the MAGA faithful who in any other era would have been an irrelevant gadfly, took issue with the immigration-policy opinions of Sriram Krishnan, a little-known venture capitalist Trump has tapped to advise his administration on artificial intelligence.

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