corner of this political smackdown is the guy you just saw.

Steve Bannon. He's aligned with the Laura Loomers of the world.

And they insist that American jobs are for American workers, including these jobs.

In the other corner, the other MAGA Titans, people like Vivek Ramoswamy and Elon Musk, who at one time worked

in this country on an H-1B visa.

They maintain that an American emphasis on their words, quote, mediocrity over excellence,

end quote, has created a need for additional high-skilled labor.

And you can only get them, from other countries,

and for that, you need these visas.

So Musk went so far as to call some Trump supporters,

quote, contemptible fools, end quote, over the matter.

Things got so heated that Trump himself had to mediate.

He weighed in in the New York Post, saying that he, quote, has always liked these visas.

Whether it settles the issue or not or whether this is even the visa that he thinks it is,

is unclear, but it is a sign of what's to come.

David Brooks points out in the New York Times this, quote,

this is not a discreet one-off dispute.

This is the kind of core tension you get in your party

when you do as Trump has done,

taking a dynamic free market capitalist party

and infused it with protective, backward-looking, reactionary philosophy.

We're going to see this kind of dispute also when it comes to economic regulation, trade, technology policy, labor policy,

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