Could it be a conspiracy against America?
Now Trump is trying to chase away skilled workers with $100k visas. When policies are this stupid, you have to wonder whether sabotage is actually the point.
It is sometimes said that nations are not defeated from without but rot from within. Watching the second Trump administration roll out its economic program, one has to wonder whether we are witnessing a deliberate attempt to make America poor again. It would be one thing if this were merely ideological missteps — dopey theories tested in real time. But the measures being advanced are so breathtakingly stupid, so contrary to American interests, that it is hard to escape the suspicion that sabotage may be the purpose.
The latest astonishing example is this weekend’s “executive action” to slap a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas, the main pathway for highly skilled immigrants to work in the United States. There has never been anything like this in US history, and there is basically no precedent or equivalent in the civilized world…
