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Laura Loomer comes for ‘welfare queen’ Elon Musk as MAGA war heats up
(www.independent.co.uk)
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This has crossed my mind as well.
For the moment, I feel like this is real infighting. There must be push/pulls among MAGA. H-1B, for example, is one area where I could see real infighting. You have the rich MAGA (which ultimately runs the whole thing), but you've also got the poor MAGA which has been bred on a fuckton of anti-immigrant sentiment.
What might be interesting is (assuming it is indeed real infighting) if the focus on rich vs poor is brought more into the forefront due to this. That certainly isn't something the MAGA leadership wants.
But holding one's breath for more/better info is smart, for now.
Which is why in the end, regardless of the motivations behind these stories, we must continue to use these opportunities to point out the underlying class war that unites us. No matter the superficial drama that creates the attention, keep redirecting the focus back to that fact. Major media outlets will do what they can to avoid conveying this message, so it's on us to make it a normal conversation that can't be ignored.
You can bet the corporate funded focus groups are burning the midnight oil plotting out how to spin the "poorly educated" MAGA folks perceptions around.