In much of the English-speaking world, but not in America, the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day. For reasons that are entirely unclear, DOGE brothers Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk decided to take the opportunity to put on boxing gloves and throw haymakers at US-born workers.

Which started when Musk posted on his social media platform Mall.

MUSK AND RAMASWAMY INITIATE MAGA WAR OVER PROFESSIONAL IMMIGRATION AND AMERICAN “MEDIUM CRITICALITY”

Apparently Big Tech companies need foreign workers because we are raising our children wrong.

Ramaswamy insisted on more extracurricular activities, less ‘hanging out at the mall’.”

The former presidential candidate says he’s only telling us “hard truths” by suggesting that every family should emulate some South Asians, whom he cites as shining examples.

But you know what? The United States of America is a nation, not just a farm system for big tech companies. And by the way, the real reason China steals innovation from us, rather than the other way around, is that our backwards, hypocritical attitudes produce freethinkers, not drones. At least when we’re not playing the banjo on the porch.

Every U.S.-born child applying to college this year will compete against students from foreign countries, including communist China, who are being rolled out the red carpet to take advantage of the American education system. And when these American students graduate, they may be passed over for entry-level jobs because of foreign competition.

Musk says American tech workers aren’t good enough. Then perhaps we need to stop giving away thousands and thousands of places at top schools and teach our own better.

When I drove to Springfield, Ohio, in September, I heard factory owners there claiming that they needed 15,000 Haitian migrants because, unlike Americans, they showed up on time, passed their drug tests and were willing to work overtime. It was nothing short of an insult to American workers, but neither was Musk and Ramaswamy making fun of the locals and their cultural traditions.

And it’s not for nothing that Big Tech companies have the added benefit of allowing workers who arrive on H-1B visas to lose their immigration status if they lose their jobs. That’s a big influence that the tech bosses don’t have over American workers.

Now it looks like MAGA is having its first full-blown civil war since Trump’s election victory nearly two months ago, but looks can be deceiving. In fact, both Ramaswamy and Musk happily take back their ill-advised duet.

That’s because outside of the new-right sushi hotspots of Palo Alto, no one in the America First Trump coalition thinks replacing American workers is nonsense.

This unfortunate moment was an unforced error, but no serious damage was caused. Sometimes mathematicians need a dose of humanities or at least a walk around the block.

The Department of Government Efficiency, which President-elect Donald Trump has entrusted to Musk and Ramaswamy, must understand that our country is not a corporation or, as Musk put it, an NBA team out to win.

The role of the United States government is to ensure the right of Americans to live as they see fit, not to serve as a cog in the machinations of billionaire geniuses at home or abroad. And Americans have a right to ensure that the institutions they pay for are actually helping Americans.

This is a teachable moment for two bright, shiny and sassy stars who embrace freedom and understand that life and freedom are a beating heartbeat and not an end result.

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This unfortunate moment was an unforced error, but no serious damage was caused. Sometimes mathematicians need a dose of the humanities, or at least a walk around the block.

American college graduates deserve a fair award; They should not have to compete with competitors for H-1B visas, and no American should train their cheaper H-1B replacement.

The Trump administration’s first task is to close the border and deport criminals. The differentiated negotiations on legal immigration can then begin.

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But there must be an important caveat. The American worker must be treated with respect. Because without him or her we have no country.

Americans don’t celebrate Boxing Day, and we don’t celebrate rich people knocking off the working man. Hopefully this unforced error is a lesson learned for Vivek Ramaswammy and Elon Musk.

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