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President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.
Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.
"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."
Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Friday November 11 2016, @11:28AM
Everyone vastly underestimated the hate for the elites and the desire to bring change to politics, even by fire.
I might believe this if it were not for the fact that a Congress with historically low approval levels was returned largely intact. I think people just like having their buttons pushed, and Trump shamelessly pushed them. Judging by early looks at his transition team and the names being floated for cabinet heads, his administration will be as much or more "Washington insider" filled as anyone else's would have been.