To save America, American nationalists allied with globalist meritocrats. Much of this alliance was propagated on X, where the Dissident Right anon-sphere is credited with bridging the gap between MAGA and Musk via the power of memes. "JD Vance is one of us!" I think this is in large part true.
A rift awaited down the road, but nobody thought it would happen this quickly. Now, the seams of the alliance are laid bare via the H1B discussion—the "staple green card to a diploma" issue that my furthest right friends warned Trump fanboys (like me) about months ago.
As I've predicted for awhile, the initial battle against what we refer to as "the woke" will be easily won, simply because it's such an obviously irrational ideology. It's a lot less nefarious than it seems, not because its not evil and destructive (it is maximally evil and destructive) but simply because it requires too much belief in too much absurdity in too short a time.
For example: the above mentioned alliance was forged by Mu…
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