There’s no shortage of spaces for the elite young minds in our country. Baffling to me that we wouldn’t want to bring in the best and brightest. I think there are genuinely good arguments to be made for evaluating the number of foreign student visas we approve and for which programs, but the idea that Americans just need to be given an opportunity to succeed and we will show we don’t need outside help is a good way to lower overall economic output through decreased talent in the labor force.
My favorite bit that the right does is pretend the millions upon millions of dollars they’ve spent cultivating a new right-wing online media apparatus was actually some organic increase in conservative media consumption.