Elon Musk's stance on welcoming skilled immigrants to the US has sparked controversy within the Republican Party, highlighting a growing divide between those who embrace progress and those who prioritize protectionism.
Elon Musk speaks in Lancaster, Penn., on October 26. Trump backers like Musk want to welcome talented immigrants to the U.S. economy, outraging more restrictive supporters.Americans used to be enthusiastic about the idea of progress. If you had attended any of the World’s Fairs that were put on over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in cities including Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago and New York, you would have seen great festivals celebrating the wonders of the future.
If you went to Disney World, you could have visited Tomorrowland and the Carousel of Progress. But gradually intellectuals and then lots of other people lost faith in progress, in the idea that growth, technology and innovation would make the future better than the past. In 2011 Virginia Postrel published a book called “The Future and Its Enemies,” arguing that the true division in politics is not left vs. right but dynamists vs. stasists. Dynamists believe in open-ended change. Stasists are in protective mode. We don’t need to rush pell-mell into the future, they say; we need to take care of our own. This conflict is now roiling the Republican Party. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are dynamists. They want to welcome talented immigrants to the U.S. economy for the same reason the New York Mets are spending over $700 million to sign Juan Soto. You could field a team with all native-born players, but you couldn’t hope to compete with the best in the world. This has elicited howls of outrage from those who want to restrict immigration, including supporters of canceling the H-1B visa program for skilled immigrants. We should be employing Americans in these jobs, those on MAGA’s rightward edge respond. The vaunted technological progress the dynamists worship has ripped American communities to shreds. This is not a discrete one-off disput
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