Attention to the Unseen

Mediate reports: Right wing MAGA influencer Laura Loomer told host Eric Bolling on Monday that Donald Trump insider and billionaire Elon Musk has made “junkies” of the right with his massive donor money and control of X, and suggested that Trump world is afraid to cross him. Loomer is one of the latest and most vocal among MAGA influencers to join in scorched earth internal warfare over the issue of H-1B guest worker visas. She joins Trump insider Steve Bannon…

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The Daily Beast reports: The MAGA Civil War has already rendered the Republican Party ungovernable, according to former GOP lawmakers who think the “s—show” is going to continue spiraling out of control. The party is already acrimoniously split between the tech billionaires like Elon Musk, who helped bankroll Donald Trump’s re-election, and the original MAGA grassroots who have been loyal to Trump since 2016. To make matters worse, the tiny Republican majority in the House means there is absolutely no…

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Andrew Prokop writes: A bitter public feud split the MAGA movement over the holidays, as supporters of high-skilled legal immigration like Elon Musk argued vociferously (and sometimes profanely) with the right’s immigration critics over the topic of H-1B visas. Musk, like many tech executives, strongly supports that program, which lets companies bring skilled foreign workers to the US for specific jobs — indeed, Musk said he once had such a visa himself. Critics on the right have long argued that it suppresses wages…

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Peter Slevin writes: The mood among Democrats on a December morning in the Wisconsin state capitol was celebratory. Ten Assembly candidates—among them a school administrator, a tavern owner, an accountant, and a county politician—had flipped Republican seats after the state Supreme Court threw out a heavily gerrymandered map. “I am super excited. Who else is super excited?” Representative Lisa Subeck, the caucus chair, said. Some of the newly elected spoke about what they hope to deliver: affordable housing, broadband, clean…

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The New York Times reports: Like much of the Mexican business world, Daniel Córdova finds himself grappling with an enormous variable looming across the American border: the imminent return of Donald J. Trump to the White House. Mr. Córdova oversees a factory outside the city of Monterrey that makes heating and air-conditioning units for Trane, an American company. The last time Mr. Trump was president, he unleashed a trade war against China that proved beneficial to Mexican industry. Companies that…

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HuffPost reports: President-elect Donald Trump weighed in Saturday on the immigration issue that has been roiling some of his highest-profile supporters online, telling The New York Post that he has “always been in favor” of H-1B visas. It is not exactly true: Trump has waffled on his support for the H-1B program over the years, going so far as to suspend it late in his first term while his administration planned harsh new restrictions for workers seeking the visas. Denial…

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