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A since-deleted Substack post
titled “Why I Joined DOGE,”
written by engineer-bigot #Gavin #Kliger,
noted a key influence was an essay by #Ron #Unz
—an infamous figure who has written about race science;
donated money to the white nationalist website #VDare, which according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a hate group;
and has been accused by the Anti-Defamation League of “#hardcore #antisemitism,” including Holocaust denial.
Kliger has already been in hot water. He also reportedly reposted white nationalist #Nick #Fuentes disparaging a Black child on his now-private X account

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesDOGE worker says he was radicalized by reading writer who denied HolocaustIn a since-deleted Substack post, a member of Elon Musk's team praised an essay by Ron Unz—who has called the Holocaust potentially a "hoax" and said Trayvon Martin was "a violent young thug."
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To the nativists, this may be a betrayal in policy terms.

But for the broader Trumpian approach to politics,
-- blaming Americans instead of scapegoating immigrants gives away the whole game.

Look at JD #Vance:
he catapulted himself to fame in 2016 through Hillbilly Elegy,
-- where he wrote the following about the white working class in rural Ohio:

“What goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south is about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible.

It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”

Vance has dropped that line of argument in recent years
and replaced it with attacking immigrants,
-- like those in Springfield, Ohio.

💥It’s a reflection of Trump’s entire project from day one:
he sells a world in which the country’s (and your) problems are the fault of immigrants,
the “enemy within”
— whoever.

🔥The tech oligarch position on this dramatically undermines that in a rhetorical sense,
and reveals the extent to which they are out of step with the people whose votes they just harvested.

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c.im/@cdarwin/1137233151724841

talkingpointsmemo.com/where-th

#Ramaswamy
#Musk #Sacks

#Loomer #Fuentes

C.IMChuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)Should MAGA stay home in 2026?’ #Laura #Loomer wages ‘racist’ war against ‘tech bros’ over Indian migrants The far-right provocateur is taking aim at Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over their support of highly skilled workers from India -- claiming that the country’s residents have a low IQ and describing Indians as “third world invaders.” Loomer has engaged in a multi-day social media tirade over Donald Trump’s recent appointment of Indian-American entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy adviser for AI, prompting the loyal MAGA supporter to rage about Krishnan’s support of H-1B visas for Indian immigrants. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-loomer-trump-maga-b2670324.html

Who Got Duped?
-- MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand

Over the past few days, a fight has erupted within the MAGA right over legal immigration, specifically about ➡️whether the country should admit more high-skilled immigrants.
On the one side, you have opportunistic tech oligarchs like Elon #Musk and David #Sacks.
These are incredibly wealthy figures who are open about using their newfound influence in government to serve both their ideological and their private business interests.
On the other are figures like Laura #Loomer, Nick #Fuentes, and other nativist
(and often openly racist) online personalities who had been vocal Trump supporters long before the Silicon Valley right joined the coalition.

The two sides began to argue on Sunday, after Donald Trump appointed #Sriram #Krishan,
a partner at Andreesen Horowitz,
👉White House policy adviser on Artificial Intelligence
to work with Sacks, the Trump administration’s #crypto and #AI #czar.
This may seem like a relatively minor White House appointment.
However, Krishan has also been a proponent of 💥removing country caps on green cards and H1-B visas,
-- which allow American companies to hire foreign workers for certain specializations.

To the far-right, nativist influencers that have from the start glommed onto Trumpian scapegoating of immigrants,
Krishan’s position crossed a line.

Loomer, an anti-immigrant provocateur who traveled with Trump during his campaign, called it
“deeply disturbing.”

Sacks replied, perhaps not fully understanding his audience,
by noting that Indian immigrants face an 11-year wait for green cards.

This was catnip for Loomer,
who replied by suggesting that Sacks was in on a new version of the great replacement theory,
and spent the next several days making vile statements about immigrants,
accusing those who disagree with her on H1-B visas of hating Americans,
and demanding that senior Trump officials denounce their Silicon Valley allies.

Sacks, whose recent political positions have included strident opposition to American support for Ukraine, denounced the “crude” attacks.

Soon, other Trump-involved tech oligarchs,
like Elon #Musk and Vivek #Ramaswamy, jumped into the fray.

Musk wrote that “the number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low.
Think of this like a pro sports team:
if you want your TEAM to win the championship,
you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be.
That enables the whole TEAM to win.”

Ramaswamy swooped in on Thursday to explain his view that American companies were forced to hire foreign skilled labor due to a deficit in homegrown American culture itself.

“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,
adding later:
“More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers.”

As you might imagine, MAGA nativists of various stripes regard this Silicon Valley defense of skilled immigration with a paranoid and often racist eye.

#Fuentes, the groyper leader, described Ramaswamy’s position as an attempt to get
“500 million indians to move here.”

Others reacted to Ramaswamy’s premise that there may be something wrong with America.

Jeremy #Carl, a senior fellow at the nativist Claremont Institute,
pushed back in a gentler fashion while still suggesting that Ramaswamy’s vision would “destroy the things that actually make America great.”

In a very obvious and over-the-top way,
this imbroglio illuminates a real divide among the most vocal members of Trump’s coalition:
-- tech oligarchs who want foreign labor for their businesses,
-- and nativists who take Trump’s rhetoric on immigration very seriously and who in many cases want to apply it to nonwhite immigrants.

But there’s another thing that’s taking place here on a deeper level.

Ramaswamy explicitly (and Musk implicitly) laid their supposed inability to find engineering talent at the feet of American culture.

Ramaswamy was very blunt about this,
calling for “fewer Saturday morning cartoons.”

Musk complained that the number of
“super talented” and “super motivated” engineers in the U.S. is “far too low.”

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talkingpointsmemo.com/where-th

TPM - Talking Points Memo · Who Got Duped? MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In HandBy Josh Kovensky

Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign aides and tactics -- though not at the Republican candidate himself.

Some of the internet’s most influential far-right figures are turning against Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening a ♦️#digital#war♦️against the Republican candidate’s aides and allies that could complicate the party’s calls for unity in the final weeks of the presidential race.
#Nick #Fuentes, a 🌟white supremacist 🌟and podcaster who dined with Trump at his Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago in 2022, said on X that Trump’s campaign was “#blowing #it” by not positioning itself more to the right
and was “headed for a #catastrophic #loss,” in a post that by Wednesday had been viewed 2.6 million times.
#Laura #Loomer, a 🌟far-right activist🌟 whom Trump last year called “very special,” said his “#weak#surrogates had unraveled his momentum and that his approach “needs to change FAST because ❗️we can’t talk about a stolen election for another 4 years❗️,” in an X post that was “liked” more than 8,000 times.

And #Candace #Owens, a 🌟far-right influencer 🌟with 5 million X followers who was photographed with Trump in March, described the conservative infighting in a podcast Tuesday as a “#MAGA #Civil #War” fueled by anger that Trump’s policies and persona had been softened to boost his mainstream appeal.

washingtonpost.com/technology/

The Washington Post · Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaignBy Drew Harwell

#Nick #Fuentes,
a Hitler–loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobicChristian nationalist fascist,
has grown increasingly disenchanted with former President Donald Trump since the two dined together at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.

Fuentes was outraged by Trump’s decision to tap Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate
because Vance’s wife is Indian and Hindu,
complaining that Vance is someone who clearly “doesn’t value his racial identity”
since he was willing to marry somebody “that far outside your race who isn’t even a Christian.”

Following the completion of the Republican National Convention last month, Fuentes was fed up, declaring that he would not vote for Trump
and that “you could not bribe me to care” about the election.
But all of that changed last week, when Fuentes reversed course and decided that instead of sitting out this election, he was going to actively work to undermine the Trump campaign in retaliation for allegedly abandoning the issues that Fuentes cares about.
rightwingwatch.org/post/nick-f

Right Wing Watch · Nick Fuentes Threatens to Wage War Against the Trump CampaignWhite nationalist Nick Fuentes is threatening to wage a guerilla war against the Trump campaign in key swing states.

White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit
#Nick #Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Donald Trump’s campaign early Friday,
announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.”

💥“Tonight I declared a new Groyper War against the Trump campaign,” 💥Fuentes wrote on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after midnight, referring to a group of far-right activists known as groypers.

Fuentes explained that he and his far-right squad of online trolls
“support Trump” but that they view his 2024 campaign as being “hijacked”
by lobbyists, consultants, and donors that had aided Trump’s 2016 Republican opponents.
All in all, Fuentes believed they were “blowing it.”
“Without serious changes we are headed for a catastrophic loss,” Fuentes wrote.

“This is NOT a purity spiral, this is about living up to the AMERICA FIRST credo put forth by Trump in 2016 which will ensure VICTORY in 2024,” Fuentes continued.
“On Monday I will present a detailed statement of the facts, a mission statement, and a plan of action on my Rumble channel. STAY TUNED.”

In another post two hours later, Fuentes shared a screenshot of trending hashtags on Truth Social, including “#GroyperWar2”, “#FireLaCivita,” and “#FireWiles,”
the latter two of which refer to senior Trump advisers Chris #LaCivita and Susie #Wiles, who helped engineer Trump’s political resurrection following his loss in 2020.

“We haven’t even started,” Fuentes captioned the screengrab.

newrepublic.com/post/184729/do

The New Republic · Trump Has Started to Piss Off White SupremacistsDonald Trump’s campaign strategy has shockingly lost support with a key part of his voter base.

Trump and Fuentes need to get the hell out of my state. No one wants you here. Fascists are not welcome here

Trump visits a Black church, addresses a MAGA activist gathering amid swing through pivotal Michigan | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Donald Trump used back-to-back stops Saturday to court Black voters and a conservative group that has been accused of attracting white supremacists as the Republican presidential candidate works to stitch together a coalition of historically divergent interests in battleground Michigan.

Trump hosted an afternoon roundtable at an African American church in Detroit, then addressed the “People's Convention” of Turning Point Action, a group that the Anti-Defamation League says has been linked to a variety of extremists.

“What a turnout this is,” Trump told a standing-room-only crowd of thousands of conservative activists packed into a massive convention hall. “With the help of everyone here today we're going to win the state of Michigan in November.”

Roughly 24 hours before the former president spoke, well-known white supremacist Nick Fuentes entered the hall surrounded by a group of cheering supporters. Security quickly escorted him out, but Fuentes created political problems for Trump after attending a private lunch with the former president and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West at Trump’s Florida estate in 2022.

#News #Politics #USPolitics #Trump #DonaldTrump #Fuentes #Michigan #Fascism #Detroit #USNews #MIPolitics #Biden #GOP

post-gazette.com/news/election

Donald Trump’s getting the band back together. But this time they come with political baggage, conspiracy theories and, in some instances, criminal convictions.

The former US president’s old acolytes are returning to the fold, eager to exert influence on his bid for the White House and have their say in a potential second administration.

That poses a headache for his election campaign team, whose efforts to run a disciplined operation can be upended at any moment by the mercurial Trump.

“Trump always wants to feel comfortable about the people who surround him and what better way to do that than to get the band back together?” said Bill Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington DC. “We could look forward to the greatest hits ad nauseam.”

If a man is judged by the company he keeps, Trump’s speaks volumes. There was uproar in 2022 when when the rapper Kanye West brought the white supremacist Nick #Fuentes to dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump’s inner circle includes the far-right representatives Matt #Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor #Greene of Georgia; Tulsi #Gabbard, a former Democrat turned rightwing media personality and outspoken critic of aid to Ukraine; and Vivek #Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who has pushed the “great replacement” theory and claimed that the 6 January 2021 insurrection was an inside job.
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

the Guardian · Court reduces Trump bond to $175m and extends deadline; Trump hush money case to start on 15 April – liveNew York appeals court reduces bond Trump must put up and gives him 10 more days to get money together; judge rules Trump’s trial on hush money payments will begin on 15 April