RACE AND RELIGION DOMINATE AMERICAN POLITICS

Deep fissures in Trump's MAGA camp

- By P.K.Balachandran

Vivek Ramaswamy and US Vice President J.D

US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) camp is now a house divided on racial, religious and doctrinal lines.

The fault lines are basically three: (1) Whites/Non-Whites; (2) Christian supremacists/Other religious groups; (3) Those who believe that to be deemed American one has to be native to the soil of America/ Those who believe that Americanness is based on citizenship and acceptance of certain core American values.

These dichotomies play out on various issues, such as the recruitment of foreigners (especially Indians and Chinese) by high-tech industries under the H1-B work visa scheme, and the desirability of non-Christian immigrants contesting elections for top political offices.