Political Voice hub: Vivek Ramaswamy's Full Interview by John Stossel

Ramaswamy has been described as “anti-woke” and as a “non-white candidate peddling racist dog whistles,” but neither captures what is unique about his candidacy. Unlike DeSantis, for whom “anti-woke” is a banner under which to advance aggressive social-conservative policy items, Ramaswamy uses it as a way to attack the connective tissue of power—a liberal consensus of anti-racism, “climatism, covid-ism, globalism.” Ramaswamy’s position on Ukraine appears to be that Americans are being played for fools. Of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine, he said, in New Hampshire, “What I’m not going to do is pretend like it’s a paragon of democracy. Give me a break. I mean, this guy has eliminated, like, eleven opposition parties, he’s consolidated media into one state-media arm. Coming here in his cargo pants like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, he’s got half the Democratic Party and three-quarters of the Republican Party eating out of his hand.”