The question no one asked last Wednesday Vivek Ramaswamy inside Debate between eight contenders for the Republican nomination That’s why he’s running for 2024 if he thinks Donald Trump is “the best president of the 21st century,” as he says in this quote. This would not be an exaggerated question, given that Trump, who has a strategic and political sense, prefers not to participate in the debate and therefore avoids succumbing to the difficulties of the debate, is also a candidate. More: the former president is the absolute favorite with more support than all his rivals combined and even 40 points ahead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who finished second despite his campaign failing.
Only Ramaswamy knows the answer to this unasked question; he was the one who energetically raised his hand in the discussion and without a moment’s hesitation when he asked those present. if they supported the ex-president’s candidacy even if he was convicted in the courts. But the truth is, the performance of the 38-year-old billionaire investor served to confirm him. the most valuable heir in terms of style and substance, insolence and arroganceThe millennial version of populism and far-right demagoguery, presented by Trump himself, even claims that his campaign represents “America First 2.0.”
The controversy turned attention and attention to Ramaswamy, which had already intensified thanks to his radiant rise. That’s because with an intense campaign on the ground (with up to 18 hours of days), the ubiquitous media presence (with his own podcast and 30 interview days), as well as statements and positions that garner attention and headlines, which weren’t even included in the Real Clear Politics poll average at the end of February. The candidate, who garnered only 2.5% support, according to Fivethirtyeight, is currently in a difficult position. comfortable third position. He’s getting closer to DeSantis and even ahead of him in some polls.
It was not in vain that the Florida governor’s team advised him to join the discussion and “hit Ramaswamy like a hammer”; Mike Pence, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie ultimately did just that. AND Ramaswamy grew up in the face of attacks as “novice”, “amateur” or “inexperienced”. Because, just like his mirror and rival Trump, he came on the scene with a lack of political experience, and he balances it with a serious dose of self-confidence, as well as arrogance and narcissism. Although his ties to influential and powerful conservative figures such as Peter Thiel or Leonard Leo question the independence he boasts, he portrays himself as an “outsider” who is far from the apparatus and supposedly “interests”.
Biography
Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of a geriatric psychiatrist and a General Motors engineer and patent attorney who came to Ohio from India. After an incident at a public school (he was pushed down the stairs by a black boy) he entered a private Jesuit school. He then went to Harvard to study biology and, after interning at several investment funds and Goldman Sachs, graduated from Yale Law, where he met his wife, a head and neck cancer surgeon, with whom he had two children. he is a hindu.
Becoming a venture capital investor specializing in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, he founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and Strive Asset Management a few years later. And this man of libertarian roots, who attributed his conservatism to the response to his father’s liberalism and the influence of a Christian piano teacher and admirer of Ronald Reagan, gradually developed a liberalism. Radical hatred of principles such as investments driven by social, environmental and corporate responsibility principlessees this as “the greatest threat to democracy”.
The veteran tennis player, occasional rapper, wrote a bestselling book ‘Woke Inc’ in 2021, followed by ‘Nation of Victims’. And he eventually became a regular guest on conservative news sites like Fox News.
His “facts” and recommendations
While he assures himself that he doesn’t see himself as a culture fighter, Ramaswamy suggests: leading a “revolution” that would lead to a “national and cultural renaissance” of the United StatesA nation that sees itself in decline due to the loss of a sense of “pride, identity and civic duty” under the advancement of what it calls “secular religions” such as “covidism, ‘climateism’, globalism and gender ideology”.
The campaign posters and message revolve around one idea: the “truth”, but its “truths” are not without controversy. He states that “HE climate change it’s a scamHe flirts with conspiracy theories by implying that the truth is not being told about the attack on the Capitol or the 9/11 attacks. He went so far as to declare it. trans people ‘experiencing mental illness’ and racial affirmative action is a “cancer”.
His other approaches and suggestions are no less provocative. Beyond his advocacy of re-centring values such as “faith, patriotism and the (nuclear) family”, he said he would seek a constitutional amendment if he were president. Raising the voting age to 25Exemptions apply only to those 18 years of age or older who volunteer to serve in the military or emergency service, or who pass the citizenship test their parents must pass. If it reaches the Oval Office, its intent is also to overthrow the federal government, eliminate 75% of the public services through mass layoffs, and eliminate the Department of Education, the FBI, the Treasury, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ramaswamy likewise guaranteed: would deploy the army to protect the southern frontier (“and to the north if necessary”). In exchange for resolving the war in Ukraine and breaking Russia’s alliance with China, it will give part of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin and agree to veto Ukraine’s NATO membership. And it would only defend Taiwan until 2028 against possible attacks from Beijing; According to his plans, he would end America’s dependence on Chinese semiconductors after his first term.