The backlash escalated Thursday, when Vivek Ramaswamy, in a post on X, criticized an American culture that he said “venerated mediocrity over excellence.”

Those two factions of the Republican Party with their profoundly different views are at each other's throats about what to do with their newfound power,” says Chris Hayes on the MAGA ‘civil war’ over skilled immigration fueled by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.