Fox News declares the ‘real losers’ in the MAGA civil war over visas — the Democrats
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“The only real losers in the wake of this kerfuffle are the Democrats and liberal talking heads who hoped that they were watching MAGA tear itself apart,” a Fox News columnist argued this week. After carefully tip-toeing around the growing tensions that have rocked the GOP in recent days, Fox News appears to have finally found a narrative it can sell right-wing viewers about the MAGA civil war about immigrant visas.
According to the conservative cable giant, “infighting” is “how politics ought to work,” and Democrats who were “giddy” over the right tearing itself apart over highly skilled immigrant workers are the “real losers” now that MAGA is having a “civilized debate” over the issue.
Over the past week, “America First” hardliners have been enraged at the Silicon Valley “tech bro” wing of the Republican Party, specifically DOGE co-chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The schism began after President-elect Donald Trump named internet entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence.
Things only went downhill after Musk and Ramaswamy doubled down on the need to import foreign workers, which of course runs counter to MAGA’s anti-immigration position. Ramaswamy made matters infinitely worse when he argued that skilled immigrants were necessary because “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long” while blaming 1990s sitcoms for the lack of American engineers.
Musk, meanwhile, initially refused to back down amid the backlash. Not only did he endorse a social media post bashing “r*tarded” American workers, but the X (formerly Twitter) owner also profanely told his MAGA critics to “f*** yourself in the face,” prompting former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon to label the Tesla CEO a “toddler.”.
