Rift on the right over US policy changes

Balaji Srinivasan, a former executive at Coinbase and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said the US should try to change its global leadership role rather than desert it, and that deregulation, not tariffs, would boost American competitiveness. Srinivasan’s criticism reflected a growing gulf between Trump’s populist MAGA base and the pro-tech right: Their coalition was crucial to reelecting Trump, but other rifts have already emerged on immigration and energy. Whether their alliance holds or merely represents a short-term marriage of convenience depends on “how ‘America First’ gets defined,” the center-right R Street Institute think tank wrote.