Vivek Ramaswamy Cites Racist Lie

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is seen onstage in the course of the fourth Republican presidential major debate on the College of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on December 6, 2023. | Supply: JIM WATSON / Getty

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is absolutely going far out of his technique to show he’s a true-to-form member of as we speak’s GOP. Like different Republican candidates, he vehemently defends Donald Trump even supposing he’s operating towards him for the presidency. He says issues as in the event that they’re extensively accepted as true when, in actuality, they’re totally debunked as false. And, regardless of being a brown particular person himself, he apparently believes white individuals are deliberately being changed by non-white individuals as a part of an agenda by Democrats to spice up their voting demographics.

Throughout Wednesday’s Republican major debate, Ramaswamy appeared to solidify himself because the chief spreader of absurd conspiracy theories, racist dog-whistling and alarmist nonsense, which is definitely fairly spectacular given all of the competitors he had on that stage for that position.

Ramaswamy kicked issues off by defending Trump and attacking the opposite candidates for criticizing the ex-president as a result of, apparently, Ramaswamy was hit with a sudden head rush of MAGA dopamine that triggered him to fully overlook how major debates work. Then he went on to suggest that the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol was the work of some anonymous, faceless authorities insider.

“Why am I the one particular person, on this stage at the very least, who can say that Jan. 6 now does appear to be it was an inside job?” Ramaswamy stated.

So, simply to recap, Ramaswamy doesn’t perceive why his fellow opponents within the GOP major are criticizing the—*checks notes*—frontrunner within the GOP major, and he doesn’t perceive why none of his opponents are unwilling to make claims that there’s zero proof to help. To be truthful, that has just about been Republican’s bread and butter for galvanizing the MAGA base, propagandizing “wokeness” and justifying voter impression legal guidelines below the guise of securing elections that don’t want securing.

Talking of elections, Ramaswamy went on to parrot Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential race was stolen from him by “huge tech,” which is precisely the form of factless nonsense that acquired lawsuits filed towards right-wing media and outstanding members of Trump’s former authorized crew. Ramaswamy additionally claimed the election was “stolen from him by the nationwide safety institution” due to the investigation into allegations that his marketing campaign had colluded with Russia. (Any individual actually wanted to verify and ensure Trump wasn’t on the catwalk above the stage pulling puppet strings the entire time.)

Ramaswamy was clearly on a mission to verify all the conservative looney-toon bins, as a result of subsequent up was his declare that the “nice alternative principle” is actual and it’s a “primary assertion of the Democratic Social gathering’s platform.” He even retweeted loud and proud white nationalist Nick Fuentes‘ co-sign of his assertion concerning the idea.

For many who are unfamiliar with the nice alternative principle, additionally known as the “white alternative principle,” it’s basic white nationalist propaganda meant to scare white individuals into believing they’re being systematically changed in America by non-white individuals. It’s a principle that was referenced in a manifesto left by Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron, who, after all, went on to focus on and gun down 10 Black individuals in chilly blood. It was additionally a favourite speaking level of former Fox Information propagandist Tucker Carlson, and, final 12 months, a ballot confirmed that 70% of Republicans agreed with the idea.

It is likely to be shocking that Ramaswamy, who’s of Indian Hindu descent, would tout white supremacist propaganda that advocates for the preservation of a white majority on the expense of non-white individuals like himself, however you need to think about what a generic right-wing software he’s. This is identical man who referred to as Juneteenth a “ineffective” and “redundant” vacation as a result of Martin Luther King Day already exists and, apparently, America isn’t sufficiently big for 2 Black holidays that don’t have anything to do with one another. And regardless of his shouting out a principle that has no place in academia or foundation in actuality, Ramaswamy is an anti-woke conservative who thinks essential race principle is a “secular faith” and likewise “psychological slavery for youngsters.”

Talking of theories, one may simply speculate that Ramaswamy is stumping for Trump as a result of it’s the favored factor to do in MAGA world and he’s secretly hoping Trump goes to jail behind one in every of his quite a few legal indictments, which might forestall the ex-president from operating once more, making himself the brand new MAGA bae.

Ramaswamy is both actually dumb or sensible sufficient to play dumb for an viewers that’s wanting to devour dumbness. Both means, he’s simply one other clown within the clown automotive and that is going to be one lengthy 2024 election race.

And a few of us are already drained.