Episode 58Hour of Decision: Identity Crisis in MAGA World and in America

During the election Donald Trump carefully pivoted away from his America First anti-immigration stance of the past to embrace, at least to some degree, legal immigration, and by implication, the replacement of American tech workers with lower paid immigrants. This pivot was the direct result of Trump’s need for more financial resources for his presidential election. Pro-immigration Elon Musk and many other tech oligarchs came to (and are now pouring into) the Trump train, but at what price? Internationalist, Big Tech elements are obviously seeking to re-direct America First into something else, something that will still fit into the Globalist project. But the firestorm brewing against this incursion of typical Silicon Valley elitist thinking has been immense. And the whole conversation about who we should invite to America to do our essential work quickly leads to a much larger conversation, whether the Powers That Be like it or not, about American independence, identity, and role in the world.