White working-class evangelicals voted en masse for Donald Trump to give a platform to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to call them “lazy,” “mediocre” and “retarded.”
OK, they didn’t expect the part about the immigrants, one of them with brown skin and a funny-sounding name, calling them “lazy,” “mediocre” and “retarded.”
The truth hurts, apparently.
“Looks like Elon Musk is going to be silencing me for supporting original Trump immigration policies,” the far right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer tweeted on Thursday night, after Musk had stripped her account of its beloved blue check, obvious retaliation for Loomer using Musk’s free speech platform to question his stance on White Americans being “lazy,” “mediocre” and “retarded.”
Circular firing squads can be fun to watch.
You know, from a safe distance.
The MAGA movement, having successfully ruined family Christmas gatherings across the expanse of the continent, turned its attention inward on Boxing Day, and, gotta say here, it was glorious to see, because, let’s face it, it’s not like the points being raised by Musk and Ramaswamy aren’t valid ones.
We’ll start with Musk, who endorsed this post from a guy who goes by the CB handle Kache, and identifies as an engineer at Twitter:
“Racist whites will do anything to save their ‘white’ ‘race’ except getting a job and having children. If you are getting replaced, it’s because you are incapable of successfully playing your part.”
This one endorsed by Musk, who doesn’t identify as an illegal immigrant, but was one, struck an obvious nerve, and he was just getting started.
He endorsed another screed from the account Autism Capital, who framed the immigration debate as being a fight between the “tech right” and the “right right,” with the right right saying, “you need to hire Americans,” and the tech right saying, “but you guys are retarded,” and “you can’t out-train being retarded.”
“That pretty much sums it up. This was eye-opening,” Musk wrote in a retweet of that post.
Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, for his part in this, offered the world a lengthy tweet blaming a culture of “mediocrity” for why we’re having “our asses handed to us by China.”
“This can be our Sputnik moment,” Ramaswamy wrote. “We’ve awaken(ed) from slumber before, (and) we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.”
Here’s the problem with that “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” thinking: the White voters who put Trump over the top voted for him to Make America Great Again, not to be lectured by some brown-skinned nerd and a White autistic guy from South Africa on how they’re going to have to roll their sleeves up and get smarter to make it happen.
“More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers,” Ramaswamy wrote. “More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less ‘chillin’’.”
“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, before later concluding: “That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence.”
But, but, but.
Trump’s White working-class evangelical base was sold on the problem being the DEI critical race theory woke mob, not their own lack of education, job training and basic giddyap.
All they had to do is vote for Trump, he was going to get rid of all the immigrants, and then they’d get the good jobs that the immigrants had.
The collective response from the “right right”: you mean, it doesn’t work that way?
No, deporting 11 million immigrants isn’t going to give you all the good jobs.
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