The Love Affair Between Tech Bros and MAGA Is Already Starting to Turn Ugly

Marko Elez , a staffer with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency , was accused of anti-Indian diatribes.

The Wall Street Journal's Katherine Long uncovered a deleted social media account from Elez .

Elez posted sentiments such as “ Normalize Indian hate,” pleaded for a “eugenic immigration policy” and suggested replacing “ 99% ” of Indian immigrants.

Eric Liu : Trump 's tech-world donors and tech-tech-tech geeks are at odds with his base's anti-immigrant views.

Liu : The clash between pro-immigration techies and the base’s contempt for any foreigners was already obvious.

He says it was one of those pro-“skilled”-immigrant techies—Musk—who exposed this gulf best via his empowerment of blatant racists on X , Liu says.

Some members of the Indian diaspora were finally coming to terms with this.

But what happened with Ramaswamy was also a harbinger of where the immigration debate was always going to fall: on the side of the base.

If Musk and his fellow Trump techies are now willing to excuse “social media posts,” they’ll likely brush off the president’s material actions against Indian immigrants.