Faction fight: America's incoming administration is at odds with itself

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  The Economist. Hi, John Pridow here.

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  I host Checks and Balance, our podcast on US politics.

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  Already things have turned nasty.

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  Donald Trump has not even got to the White House and his raucous court of advisers have rounded on each other.

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  In recent days,

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  Elon Musk and other tech tycoons have traded insults with the MAGA crowd over highly skilled migration.

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  What seems like a petty spat over visas is in fact a sign of a much deeper rift.

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  For the first time,

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  tech is coming to Washington and its worldview is strikingly at odds with the MAGA movement.

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  The way in which these tensions are resolved, and who gains the upper hand,

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  will profoundly affect America's economy and its financial markets over the next four years.

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  As in his first term,

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  Mr Trump has assembled an economic policy team with disparate,

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  sometimes contradictory, goals.

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  The MAGA diehards, such as Stephen Miller, Mr Trump's choice for deputy chief of staff,

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  are anti-trade,

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