The H1B Debate and the Shaping of America

People die. So do societies.

Societies that mimic personal insecurities die with the people who dominate them.

Those societies that grow beyond personal whims take on a larger role and go beyond a limited life.

The greatest gift for the United States was not that it won the independence against the British or brought down the Soviet Union. But that it had as its founder a man who after he had defeated the largest colonial power in the world at that time, decided to share power with everyone else in the land.

That was the crux of America's dream. That everyone has a share of the pie to architect the country and its society in a more meaningful way.

Currently, that is at stake.

Not because of some foreigner who has respected the law of the land and contributed positively but because of the greed of a few.

That needs pointing to and understanding clearly.

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Loomered - Shallow and Racist Attacks

In mid November Laura Loomer a fringe activist of the right wing of MAGA opened a front that will eventually prove to be critical for the future survival of Trump administration, and more importantly, the MAGA movement.

She went after Trump's appointment of Sriram Krishnan as the Senior Policy Advisor for AI of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Why?

Because he had come over to the US on H1B and had since become an entrepreneur and risen to a position where he became a pre-eminent voice on AI.

Her pet peeve - Sriram's argument for removing the Green Card limiting cap that throttle many within the tech pool to keep working as H1B which is a broken regime anyway.

H1B was designed to be misused. I know. I have been through its restrictive ways where one is tied to the whims of one's employer and cannot do anything until he gets to a certain point within the Green Card process.

That is what Sriram is talking about. You see, the H1Bs who are working for years in the US contributing to the taxes, the Medicare, the Social Security and to the business need to have some justice at the end of it.

Loomer however has had own take on things. We need to understand every side of the H1B story in a way that makes sense and is realistic.

When people replied back to her, she came up with the Ro Khanna boogieman. So let us understand this Ro Khanna thing.

One, most of the MAGA-backing Hindus and Indians know Ro Khanna is a lackey of the Pakistani Islamist cabal.

It took Indians some time to fully understand the "real" Ro Khanna. Except for the hard-core democrats, the sane Indians do not back or trust Ro Khanna anymore.

However, most Indians, like yours truly, were aligned to the Democratic party for many years and would contribute to their causes. I would contribute to NPR annually until I realized the extent of their lies and the fabrication of stories for which I had a good understanding.

Just like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and heck, even Donald Trump, most erstwhile Democrats moved to saner territory by abandoning the Woke-Left Democrats who had come unhinged in the past few years. I am assuming the same thing happened with Krishnan.

So, one can understand how Loomer could conflate different things and come up with her own narrative to suit her agenda, but it wasn't quite like that.

So put things in context, it may be essential to share my own journey and bring out the lessons one has learned about what is good and what is ugly about the whole H1B and Green Card process in the United States.

My American Journey

In April of 1997, my mother beckoned an astrologer. He would often come and give his version of how the future would unfold for her kids.

Just for the heck of it, and to have some fun, I asked the guy - "Do you think I will ever go and work outside of India?"

Those were the days when Indian workers had just started to travel to US and Europe for projects. I worked in the Process Consulting area and not the IT consulting. So, my chances were minimal.

Expectedly, he announced, "Not in the next 5 years."

That made sense.

However, on Wednesday, our group was asked to shortlist two people for an ERP training in Texas in collaboration with a Big Five consulting. I was one of those two. By Saturday, we both were in Dallas. Just 5 days after that astrologer's grand verdict!

I subsequently was hired for an year long project because of my background as a Cost Accountant.

One thing led to another, and I was working in a large consulting firm within a year.

I had not come to the US for money. I had initially traveled just for the experience of the place. However, things took on its own turn and due to family obligations, I stayed back.

If one could, one would want to move back to India for many factors:

1. Family
2. Community
3. Culture and Food
4. Entrepreneurial Growth

Why one does not is because of many reasons that we will discuss later as we go on.

Some Indian Americans, however, did move back to India. Let us look at some of their stories to get some valuable lessons.

Zoho: From the Silicon Valley to Indian Villages as High-Tech Center

While traveling in San Francisco's BART metro system during the winter holidays, I recently saw one company's ads displayed prominently throughout the trains and the train stations.

What is Zoho?

Zoho Corporation is a global software company that provides many cloud-based business applications. It is known for its integrated suite of software solutions designed to help businesses of all sizes streamline their operations. Zoho’s offerings cover various business functions like - Sales, Marketing, Commerce, Service, Finance, Email and Collaboration, Human Resources, Legal, Security and IT Management, BI and Analytics, Project Management, Developer Platforms. and IoT.

Check out the entire suite here - Zoho Products.

Sridhar Vembu lived in Silicon Valley, California, where he co-founded AdventNet, later rebranded as Zoho Corporation.

Vembu moved to a small village near Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, where Zoho established its rural headquarters.

Vembu's Story: While in Silicon Valley, Vembu saw the potential of India’s talent pool and aimed to create world-class software products at a lower cost. Returning to India, he championed the decentralization of IT work, hiring local talent directly from villages while creating a networked system of educating those who had not seen school or university. Vembu’s focus on creating entrepreneurship based on rural talent has inspired a movement for tech entrepreneurship beyond urban areas.

Watch this.

What does Vembu's story tell you?

Now, Laura Loomer can get all uppity about Vembu's time in the US and how Tamil Nadu's villages are benefiting from that experience.

But if she were a smart person and really worried about the American heartland that has been destroyed by the relentless greed of the American Corporations ("How Monsanto Is Devastating Thousands of Farms Across 20 States"), she could also have benefited from Vembu's rural model and worked on a scenario where American rural small-enterprises could have created their own equivalent of Zoho.

All it would take is to send some social entrepreneurs to Vembu's offices to learn and come back to replicate that model for the American farm communities that have been devastated by Monsanto, Bayer, and BASF.

And that is what Loomer doubles down against.

How AI's impact will lead to job losses will create a situation where millions of unemployed "Foreigners" (naturalized US citizens) will compete for new jobs.

The silly underpinnings of this assertion are fairly easy to comprehend.

You see, the coming AI revolution will create high-end roles (AI researchers, system architects) and low-end jobs (plumbers, electricians, masons, artisans etc). Still, it may shrink middle-tier jobs (e.g., developers, managers, administrative roles, and even doctors and lawyers).

What is likely to happen is that if the AI tools take over the scenario, work will be sent where the talent is. If that talent is not available in the US but can be found in a village in Tamil Nadu, then that is where the work will go - visa or no visa.

This can happen in two ways:

Remote Work Expansion: AI tools enable remote collaboration, making it easier for companies to outsource work to foreign countries where wages are lower.

AI-Driven Localization: Companies may opt to employ foreign workers directly in offshore locations where AI systems are managed rather than relocating them to the US.

If the American politicians are not careful, while the AI's leading companies may be in the US, the talent will have to be sourced from India, China or other countries.

One company that used this kind of model is Slideshare. Linkedin later acquired it.

Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle – SlideShare

• Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle lived in San Francisco, California, where SlideShare was conceptualized.
• Their engineering team was based in Delhi, where development work for SlideShare was carried out.
• Their Story: SlideShare, a platform for sharing presentations, grew rapidly with technical support from India. Sinha and Boutelle demonstrated how a hybrid model could work, blending US-based business strategy with India’s engineering expertise. This approach culminated in LinkedIn acquiring SlideShare in 2012, proving the viability of cross-border startup models.

Slideshare is a model that will work in AI as well.

How can future innovation happen in the US? The key is whether America will remain a society where people feel welcomed.

Some Americans want to pick and choose the best and the brightest and throw out the rest.

It doesn't work that way.

You take out the welcoming aspect for legal immigrants, and you take out the most essential reason why anyone will come to your shore.

This cultural aspect is the key.

Something that Vivek Ramaswamy discussed in his X post - which received both positive and negative feedback.

He discussed how the American culture has come to value mediocrity over the last few decades and, in a way, downplays meritocracy.

The hunger to excel and the focus on STEM subjects (which are the key to future AI models) is absent.

That is seen most prominently in the families of immigrants from India and China.

That culture of excellence is not suddenly learned in the US. Those families and groups come ingrained with the push for STEM and excellence in education as their mainstay.

That is why Indians remain at the forefront of economic well-being in the US.

The Average Indian Household income in 2022 was $145,000.

Compare this to the other ethnic groups and we can see the difference. The average household income for "all American households" is $80,610. For the Whites-not-Hispanic, it is $89,050; for Hispanics it is $65,540; for Blacks it is $56,490 and for the Asian Americans it is $112,800. In contrast, for the Indian-Americans, it is $145,000.

This can be seen another way. The Median wage of the H1B workers.

But this is a deceptive graph in one way. Most of the Indians coming over the US are in the IT sector, which pays higher salaries than regular professions.

So even though the Indian IT companies and the many smaller IT companies hiring H1B workers are milking them, it is still on a higher scale.

Then Why Can't Immigrants Do well in their Countries?

It is not as if these immigrants would not have done what they did in the US back in their home countries. They would have.

How have those societies performed? If they have not, then why not?

Until now, the Western Powers, specifically the US, have been busy with political subversion and regime changes in every continent.

Let's take France as an example. A country that prides itself in its freedom of expression, fairness, justice, democracy, debate, and all the rest of those superlatives. Yet, they colonially rule African countries under the CFA currency to this date.

Libya's Gaddafi made that mistake. He threatened the CFA regime. So, Sarkozy worked with Hillary to depose him and turn Libya's prosperous society into a place where men and women were being sold on the streets post-invasion!

The role of Western "Democracies" in subverting other nations in the name of "Democracy" is astounding. We have discussed the entire farce of "Democracy Promotion" here:

The questions you may have are:

• Do such interventions impact the society where they are orchestrated?
• Is there any positive change in democracy and freedoms where US through its organizations like National Endowment for Democracy has intervened?

CATO Institute has done some research on this. It is incredibly instructive.

With Latin American countries forever been under the subversive influence of the CIA and other organizations, is it any wonder that those countries send forth the largest contingent of immigrants?

What is true of Latin American targets of CIA and NED is also true of other societies.

On the face of it, for example, India and the US are democracies with strongly intertwined fates and values. How does that relationship work?

Let us take an example.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist popularly known as the "father of the Indian nuclear program."

In the book titled Conversations with the Crow, which comprises the transcripts of writer Gregory Douglas' conversation with former CIA officer Robert Crowley, Crowley shares how the CIA had blown up an entire plane just to eliminate India's nuclear physicist, Homi Bhabha.

Robert Crowley was the second in command of the CIA's Directorate of Operations (in charge of covert operations), as recorded in a book by Gregory Douglas.

That is all one needs to know about "like-minded democracies with shared common values" rhetoric.

So you see how American establishments have wanted to control the world by sabotaging different societies. Talent from those societies comes to the US to do what they are good at.

If Dr. Homi Bhabha had not been killed, India's nuclear and space research would have been just as dynamic as NASA's. Now it is another matter that NASA employs many Indian descent scientists on its rolls.

Moving Back - The Challenges and the Intention

Every year, I would plan to go back and got stuck in what has been known in Indian immigrant circles as the "X+1" syndrome. Every year, you decide to go back, and it is always the next year that you plan to go back. That "next year" never came.

Many Indian Americans, specifically those in their first ten years in the US, yearn to return to India. That's 61% of the Indians who want to return.

The reason why people stay back is not always economic. It can be a mix of these reasons:

• Kids' assimilation in India. The standards and curriculum in Indian schools are much more demanding than those in US schools. Kids growing up in American schools find it very tough to adjust to the Indian curriculum. After the kids get to 3rd grade, the battle of moving back is already lost.
• The cost of property in Indian cities is exorbitant. It is far easier to buy a home in large American cities (outside of the Bay Area and Tristate) than in Tier 1 cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
• The nature of work in the US and India is very different. Culturally, it may be tough to adjust to how Indian employees work.

The money one makes in the US is not the main factor in most cases.

H1Bs take away jobs for lower money

The Indian IT talent has impacted the world of IT negatively in two ways. We will discuss both because it is imperative to understand both the mechanisms.

Scaling by IT Outsourcing Business lead to Lowering Talent

I once spoke with an old-timer at an Indian IT company about the fall in standards. He shared an interesting perspective.

The talent at a certain top tier Indian IT company initially used to be from the premier IT schools in India—predominantly the IITs. At one client, a very large Oil & Gas major, the IT firm's team had done coding that was so amazing and genuinely world-class that the Oil & Gas major formally adopted their coding standards for every area of software development.

Ten years later, he lamented the standards of recruiting and even work had fallen tremendously. "In one instance, the same Oil & Gas firm's executives found that a code written for them had been copied from the internet," the friend shared.

"How did they come to know that?" I asked.

The guy had even copied a commented-out URL mentioned in the code on the site he had copied from!

The fall in the standards has happened just as the IT businesses were scaling up the outsourcing business moving to India.

Most of the IT business executives have been very happily peddling this downward spiral to make profits.

Let me share again something from my personal recollection.

When I was hired by the American consulting firm from India, they not just paid me a bonus upfront but also provided a free fully-furnished apartment in the US for a month after I moved to US. The salary was comparable to that of any other US-based employee.

In addition, the foreign hires would get an all-paid free family trip to our home country once a year. That alone amounted to $10-20,000.

However, over the years, the practices changed and the benefits were stopped.

The American firms, not just that one, in order to compete with the Indian IT firms like Infosys, TCS, WIPRO etc, did away with all the perks and even the need to pay comparable salaries.

The Indian IT firms were paying rock bottom salaries (the loan amount for buying a car during my time with an Indian IT firm used to be $2000. Tell me which car you would buy for that amount?!) and treated their employees with no compassion.

All to make profits from Cost arbitrage.

The Big Four consulting firms had no way to compete except to follow suit.

Mind you, the salaries and the perks offered to the European hires remained intact. Just the Indian hires got the rough deal within these firms.

That is why when someone like Narayan Murthy gives prescriptions of 70-hour work weeks one feels even more enraged.

At the same time, he, his colleagues, and peers have been busy standing up decidedly discriminatory empires of Cost and Respect Arbitrage.

For whom?

That Indian firms like Infosys marketed themselves on Cost Model (if X does your work for 25 cents, I will do for 20) as opposed to the Value Model (if X does for 25 cents, I will do for 35 but give you a value of 50 cents) was known to all. That is how they were building their businesses.

These honchos had no trust in the ingenuity of the Indian talent to lead the world of IT. They assumed that the only way to sell Indian talent was to undermine its respect and lower the cost.

Unlike Vembu's model which prides on selling world class products and services, selling on cost became the basis of the growth of Indian IT firms.

His analysis of what ails the whole model was bang on.

Within three years, Vishal Sikka had to leave because he was faced by open revolt from within. The board wasn't very sympathetic to him either.

All this is clearly stated in Sikka’s letter to his employees. He wrote, ” It is clear to me that despite our successes over the last three years, and the powerful seeds of innovation that we have sown, I cannot carry out my job as CEO and continue to create value, while also constantly defending against unrelenting, baseless/malicious and increasingly personal attacks.” (Source: "Vishal Sikka resigns: When Infosys CEO faced personal attacks from ANONYMOUS letters" / Financial Express)

The company, Infosys, remained a cost arbitrage company as it always was.

Now to the other negative model that was created by some of the unscrupulous Indians in the US - selling Indians as 'bodies'.

Using the Green Card Time Arbitrage

When a small company files for an H1B employee's Green Card, he is basically a slave to them. There is very little that he can argue for.

This gave rise to an intertwined web of Staff Augmentation companies.

You did not even have to hire the employee on your payroll. You could simply trade one.

The entrepreneurs of one state in India used this to the hilt. They would set up fly-by-night training institutes in India and get the trainees to the US on H1B after the courses and they would be passed around for different assignments.

There were additional corners that these unscrupulous businesses cut.

Fake resumes, for example. Fake resumes and even fake interviews (someone else interviewing for you) became widespread in these circles. Specifically within the community of one Indian linguistic group.

Eventually, these practices spawned a system of layered staff augmentation firms. Or as it has been known in Indian circles - the "Body Shoppers."

This is how the model worked. A role that the client marketed at $100/hr would be filled by a candidate who was getting $50/hr because of the intertwined web of 'body shoppers.'

This would do two things:

1. Price out the US-based professionals because such rates would not support their cost of living.
2. Invariably, Firm B - in this model - would jostle for "preferred vendor" status and offer candidates a much lower price than Firm A.
3. Costs of all roles would spiral down over time because the clients would figure the game out and would start low from get go.

This was ok as long as the roles were being filled by "fresh off the boat" H1Bs. But once they were in the US and had to live long term - cost of housing, education, food etc would kick in - such rates were no longer sustainable.

Moreover, those who were on H1Bs eventually got Green Cards.

Now, it was very tough.

The market had already been destroyed!

All this happened because some unscrupulous Indian hustlers wanted to make quick money without delivering any quality.

So when someone like this guy here discusses on X about the lowering of wages for the Americans, he does have a point.

This spiral did not happen easily.

IT Sector Built of Trading Respect of Indians and Livelihoods of Americans

Yesterday's H1B workers are today's American citizens.

Now, look at the whole scenario and the two models of lowering costs that we have discussed: One, by the large Indian IT firms, and Second, by the unscrupulous body-shoppers.

You will realize that they both are similar in their moral stance.

Ultimately, money had to be made. Not from hard work or quality. But from arbitrage.

While respect for the Indians was traded by Indians themselves to earn profits, the American corporations traded the silence of American citizens to.. well earn profits!

The fact is that no one comes out squeaky clean in this whole scenario.

Yesterday's H1B - Today's US Citizen

Those who came to the US on H1B visas have, over time, acquired their Green Cards and subsequently became US citizens.

How does that make them loyal to America?

That is a very relevant question.

Here, one needs to understand a few things:

1. American establishment and its stances are not necessarily good for America's national interest. After working to control the world using various covert shenanigans, as we discussed earlier, the US Deep State eventually turned on the Americans. That was the core issue of the 2024 elections.
2. America's deepest values are - democracy, meritocracy and entrepreneurship

I have analyzed America's core mojo to understand what it is that has created the Union of States that is known as the US.

Interestingly, I would suggest that the United States is not a nation based on ethnicity, religion, or even social homogeneity. It is an economic idea.

At the end of it all, the American Dream remains an economic concept rooted in freedoms that the establishment decides.

If you were to take away two things from American life, you can basically destroy the very fabric of the United States. Those two are:

1. Freedoms enshrined in the US Constitution
2. Economic/Entrepreneurial systems that promote meritocracy

If there is no way for an ordinary human being, supported by basic freedoms, to get whatever s/he aspires and works for in the US, then will anyone move to the US?

This is an important question to ponder sans any ideological or jingoistic stance. For at the root of it lies the future of the US.

People from the US have been leaving the US in the past few years. Reasons for the exodus are interesting.

Some are calling it the "Great American Exodus."

What is loyalty to the US, then?

• Loyalty to the prevalent US regime?
• Loyalty to a certain creed or religion?
• Loyalty to the basic American values of Freedom and Free Will?

This fundamental test is what Vivek Ramaswamy has repeatedly discussed.

Loyalty to America should be loyalty to its founding principles.

That would be the redemption of every American being crushed by the greed of a few.

We have discussed in our earlier newsletters about how that greed has now all but eroded any semblance of grace and justice from American life over the last few decades.

Let us look at this from another perspective.

Assimilation and Allegiance

For the Hindus, the perspective of allegiance is very different.

It is not about "citizenship". More about the duty (Dharma) to the different relationships.

In Hindu scriptures, Janma-bhoomi (birthplace) and Karma-bhoomi (land of action) are significant concepts deeply rooted in dharma (righteous duty).

The duties towards these are not explicitly codified in one place but are inferred through various texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Smriti literature.

Duties towards Janma-Bhoomi (Birthplace):

The land and society where you were born is owed a debt for having nurtured and sustained you. They would include:

• Gratitude and Reverence for the Birthplace
• Preservation of Dharma in the Birthplace: protecting its heritage and traditions
• Service and Contribution: Contributing to the prosperity and well-being of the birthplace is seen as a part of one's dharma.

You will see that the debt for one's birthplace drives the reverence to the place of birth. For someone who is sensitive and spiritually inclined, there is a contribution to one's birth and sustenance of everything in that land that cannot be taken away.

How such reverence manifests is different in different people.

That reverence of the janma-bhoomi becomes the basis on which the duties towards the karma-bhoomi spring from. With so much that the land of your action contributes to your being, there is a large debt as well. That also needs to be answered.

Duties towards Karma-bhoomi (Land of Action):

Where you work gives you the gift of sustenance. It is no small feat. The society comes together to offer you livelihood and earning.

• Moral Conduct and Duty: The land where one resides and earns livelihood becomes the field of one’s actions. Performing one’s duties selflessly and according to dharma is a key principle. Staying away from actions that constitute crimes or transgressions is the key.
• Respecting and Sustaining the Land: It is one's duty to honor and protect the land of action, treating it with respect and ensuring its ecological and social harmony.
• Adherence to Local Laws and Customs: The Manusmriti emphasizes respecting the laws and customs of the land where one resides and works.
• Contributing to the Welfare of Society: Engaging in acts of charity and supporting societal well-being is prescribed as a part of dharma in the karma-bhoomi.

The duties toward Janma-bhoomi emphasize gratitude, preservation, and service to the birthplace. For Karma-bhoomi, the focus is on moral and positive action, adherence to local dharma, and contributing to societal harmony.

There is no dichotomy or competition between the two duties. Both concepts are complementary and deeply tied to the idea of Lokasamgraha (लोकसंग्रह) (welfare of the world), which is a central theme in Hindu philosophy.

It is best explained in Bhadwad Gita chapter 3 verse 20-21

कर्मणैव हि संसिद्धिमास्थिता जनकादय: |
लोकसंग्रहमेवापि सम्पश्यन्कर्तुमर्हसि || 20||
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जन: |
स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते || 21||

By performing their prescribed duties, King Janak and others attained perfection. You should also perform your duties to set an example for the good of the world. Whatever actions great persons perform, common people follow. Whatever standards they set, all the world pursues.

It is for this reason that Indian Americans are more likely to view the United States in the most positive manner than any other place in the world. Including their own birthplace (janma-bhoomi)

These attitudes amongst the Indian-Americans have not been pushed on them. It is their natural outlook.

For them, positive outlook for both the societies - American and Indian - for the same values - freedom and democracy - comes naturally.

Racism, Values and Life of an Immigrant

Racist or hegemonic ideologies pushed by a few groups or the establishment of the day do not undermine those fundamental human values that this group of immigrants carry with them.

And that is the key.

Many Americans who have lost their jobs to IT work's "downward spiral" are not wrong. Neither are H1Bs cheap and low-end foreigners waiting to pounce on American jobs.

The truth is somewhere in between.

The recent wave of racist attacks on X against the Indian-Americans is not something new. It has happened before as well.

It probably stems from social differences as much as it is rooted in religious bigotry.

The religious orthodoxy is deeply rooted in some people's minds.

For example, in this exchange between a fanatic Christian and Vivek Ramaswamy, the former openly demonstrates his bigotry that considers everyone else's faith - that is not similar to his - as worthy of scorn and he feels justified in trampling on those beliefs and tenets however noble they may be.

It is no different from the conceptualization of the Jihadis that these folks hate as well.

Ramaswamy shares beautifully how the United States was formed not based on a religious framework but based on a Constitution.

That Constitution overrides every religious book or scripture in terms of guiding and shaping the social and moral compass of a republic like the United States.

This debate of what the US really is as a polity, a society, an economy, and above all, as a nation is critical to its future.

The Internal MAGA Civil War and its Impact

As the debate on H1B grew, it went from anti-immigrants to anti-Indians. And everything in between.

This debate has exposed ideological rifts within the MAGA coalition, pitting nativist elements against proponents of skilled immigration. The outcome of this internal conflict could significantly influence the direction of U.S. immigration policy and its implications for Indian-American communities and H-1B visa holders.

The vitriol against immigrants in general and Indians in particular will impact how people outside of the US view it as a competitive destination of talent.

As we had discussed earlier, businesses go where talent is. The case of Fabien Pinckaers, founder and CEO of Odoo - who moved his business and himself from Belgium to Gujarat because of the talent he could tap into in India is an instructive one.

Odoo's most extensive client base is in the United States: 26.32%.

The story is very similar to Zoho - the product is created in India while the market is in the US.

The internal MAGA civil war will have another ramification: breaking the Trump coalition apart.

Trump's victory was predicated on the backing he received from Elon Musk and his platform X. Had that platform not backed Trump the way it did or if it had not bared the shenanigans of the Democrats with the Intelligence Agencies via Twitter Files, this victory would not have been possible.

The anti-immigrant gang has been targeting Musk as well in the misplaced belief that they alone are the sole reason for victory.

They aren't.

And it is this self-important narrative that will break the Trump coalition apart.

Is that the goal really?