At war with itself ...

Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk at the U.S. Capitol.
Photo: Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images

OMG, Ramsawamy actually spoke the truth ... Education in America sucks and immigrants play a positive role, particularly in the areas of tech and computing. With this being said, a shit storm of historic proportions is beginning to emerge in the land of MAGA without question.

Banner displaying "Vote To Make America Great Again"
on a roadside in California shortly after the November 2016 election

To whit.

A MAGA-world civil war erupted over Christmas when a social media post on American culture turned into a pitched battle over race, immigration and billionaires versus the working class.

Why it matters: The fight exposes one of the MAGA movement's deepest contradictions: It came to prominence chiefly via the white, less-educated, working class but is now under the full control of billionaire technologists and industrialists, many of them immigrants.

Awesome to a fault.

Catch up quick: The skirmishes started Sunday when Trump named venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan as his adviser on AI policy.

Krishnan's appointment triggered an anti-Indian backlash on social media, particularly given his past advocacy for lifting caps on green cards.

Vivek Ramaswamy escalated the conflict into a full-blown war Thursday morning with a post on X blaming an American culture that "venerated mediocrity over excellence" for the growth in foreign tech workers.

"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 wrote, calling for a 1950s-style "Sputnik moment" to prioritize "nerdiness over conformity."

"That's the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence," he said.

In order to do that, priorities in America must change but given the kind of "leadership" we have, the chances of seeing that actually happen is akin to asking pigs to fly.

Oh, but they can. :)