Steve Bannon lit into tech billionaires on his show Friday after Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk defended the use of H1-B visas to bring high-skilled migrant workers into the U.S.

Ramaswamy sparked a civil war within the MAGA world on Thursday when he made the argument that the U.S. needs to import high-skilled workers as American culture has led to mediocrity in the population.

“Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer),” wrote Ramaswamy after several MAGA influencers slammed President-elect Donald Trump’s hiring of a prominent Indian American tech executive into his administration.

Bannon spoke with MAGA influencer Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, and characterized the ongoing battle as “populist, nationalist versus elite globalist.”

“Now, when you say we’re going to work this out, you guys are going to get– [Laura] Loomer is on here. She’s banned. They’re trying to ban Gavin Wax. You’re going to be banned eventually by the ‘free-speech absolutist,’” Bannon began, noting Musk’s X was stripping the verification of commentators on the far-right who had criticized him.

“The nerds don’t take criticism. They’re kind of, you know, they’re a little bit all on the spectrum, right? They don’t know– they’re not deep in social skills,” Bannon continued, swiping at Musk and tech bros like Peter Thiel and Ramaswamy. He added:

And I say you can’t run a country by algorithm. You can’t run a country by the nerds that create and target– their companies all employ a handful of people. Right. They’re all math, you know, they’re all mathematicians, all about algorithms.