> trump can salvage this only if he keeps the visa cap at 65k a year like it is. he can't salvage it now. if he agreed to 0%, silicon valley would have him deposed, and the base would still be howling for further remigration of existing visa holders. this wound is mortal. it will not kill quickly but it is mortal. how do people not get this? the illegals are greater in number and the working class has borne the brunt. but the h1bs compete directly for middle class jobs. this is the voting bracket, the engaged bracket, these are the failed elites. this is the raw fuel of genuine political revolution. worse than not satiating them, trump gave them hope, and has now dashed it on the floor. the damage to the legitimacy of the political process may no longer be recoverable. the ex-middle classes, with their education and burning resentment, will now work to mobilise the wider discontented working class towards genuine revolution. it is no longer possible to persuade them to back into the normal political process. they have seen chance after chance taken away and now this farce, with musk and vivek spitting at the crowd while trump wipes their lips. "let them eat competition!". tens of thousands of enraged tech workers and aspirates are all but ready to form revolutionary committees today. and trump is not even in office! musk has earned his place in history as the marie antoinette of what will now follow. my advise to americans who can is to make plans to leave.
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