There was a civil war in the MAGA movement.
All hell was breaking loose.
And Vivek Ramaswamy stepped in one fight that ended in one bad way.
Vivek Ramaswamy under fire for support of cheap foreign labor
Donald Trump named Sriram Krishnan as Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence.
Some supporters were upset over the fact that Krishnan supports removing country-specific caps on green cards, as immigration hawks argue Big Tech supports this open borders policy to game the system in order to import a steady flow of cheap engineering labor from Communist China and India.
Big Tech titans like Elon Musk and David Sachs – who is running AI policy for Donald Trump – support increasing the number of H-1B visas in America.
Currently, the government gives out about 100,000 of these visas a year, which have turned into a giveaway to Big Tech to hire foreign workers who will work at half the price of Americans.
Trump supporters like Laura Loomer and others slammed the appointment of Krishnan, saying no one voted to put an immigration dove in charge of policy.
Ramaswamy defended Musk and his fellow tech libertarians, claiming firms weren’t hiring Americans because American culture was soft and lazy.
“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture,” Ramaswamy wrote on X. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”
Ramaswamy claimed Americans focused too much on superfluous hobbies like sports and winning the title of prom queen as opposed to studying math and physics.
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy added.
Ramaswamy went on to claim that tech firms needed to import cheap foreign labor because Americans spend too much time in front of the TV.
“A culture that venerates Cory from Boy Meets World, or Zach & Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell, or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in Family Matters, will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy added.
Sports teach valuable lessons such as how to co-exist with individuals from different backgrounds, how to win, and – more importantly – how to lose and deal with failure.
Becoming the prom queen or succeeding in sports also helps develop social skills that can lead to success later in life.
Ramaswamy looking down at quintessential aspects of American culture like sports and a social life came across as the type of arrogant elitism that voters just rejected in the Democrat Party.
Ramaswamy is also wrong on the merits.
America produces more than enough STEM graduates to fill all the jobs necessary in Big Tech.
“According to Census Bureau data, the US has more than 2x as many American workers with STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs. And many of the STEM jobs that do exist go to foreigners because our immigration system allows them to legally be paid less. But sure, it’s the TV shows,” conservative pundit Rachel Bovard wrote on X.
But Big Tech wants cheap labor and leaves American workers out in the cold as a result.