Biotech mega-millionaire bro and slippery master bullshitter Vivek Ramaswamy (ram-ASS-wommy) is making some headway in the Republican / New Confederate contest for their Presidential nomination, nipping at the boot heels of failing Florida Gov. Ron "Bootsie" DeSantis. Ramasmarmy, er, Ramaswamy optimistically told Fox "News" that he would be able to "bring along voters of diverse shades of melanin in droves and win this election in a landslide,” according to a report in Politico. It's as if he thinks voters vote according to the skin color of candidates, not issues. Talk about the "race card," but we digress.
There may be some voters of color that will fall for his cynical appeal out of ethnic pride, but Ramaswamy needs to understand that MAGA white Christian nationalist voters will NEVER support a man of the Hindu faith like Ramaswamy for President. Of course, he's been trying to appeal to them, by being more "Christian"-values-proclaiming than DeSantis, Pence and others, but it comes off as insincere and manipulative (which should be his campaign slogan).
Then there's the matter of Ramaswamy's Eastern elitist bona fides: Harvard and Yale graduate, big Pharma mega-millionaire (Forbes: $630 million in 2023). Not very appealing to the MAGA mouthbreathers who prefer a <cough white cough> "populist" leader with at least the whiff of being like them. It also didn't take long from looking at Ramaswamy's Wiki page to see that he benefitted from a post-graduate fellowship from the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Yes, that's Paul Soros, the late brother of MAGA nemesis George Soros. It's a connection that weaselly Ramaswamy actually tried to pay Wikipedia to erase from his page. Truth!
The glib and radical Ramaswamy, who promises to take a cleaver to the Federal government in the way that right-wing hero Elon Musk has crippled Twitter / X, is someone who belongs back among his wealthy right-wing tech bros and not in the Oval Office.
(photo: Cognitive dissonance: sign and man. Paul Sancya / AP)
