Ramaswamy, a surprise Republican presidential contender, honed his political identity in the kinds of elite institutions whose norms and values he has since come to reject.
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“He was known in the class as the devil’s advocate,” one former law school classmate said. “And at a certain point, if someone is always playing the devil’s advocate, you have to kind of wonder whether he’s actually the devil.”and the product of elite East Coast institutions that make convenient foils for culture warriors like him, Ramaswamy arrived on the national scene this year as a surprise White House contender.
While his worldview didn’t quite fit in with the liberals who dominated the exclusive schools he attended, classmates mostly remember Ramaswamy fondly as a fun-loving intellectual jouster full of hot takes. But his norm-smashing presidential campaign has left some of them wondering if they ever really knew the real Vivek Ramaswamy — or if there even is one.
“I’m the new guy here, and so I know I have to earn your trust,” Ramaswamy said at another point. “What do you see? You see a young man who’s in a bit of a hurry, maybe a little ambitious, bit of a know-it-all, it seems, at times. I’m here to tell you, no, I don’t know it all. I will listen.” On the surface his rise is a familiar story, following the well-worn playbook of other young men in a hurry, several he knew from school: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio . In moments worthy of a time capsule, Buttigieg and Ramaswamy both asked questions of Democratic presidential candidates — Dick Gephardt and Al Sharpton, respectively — on MSNBC’s “Hardball” during the 2004 race.in 2019 with his wife, Apoorva, to raise their young family.
Mark Neyer, a fellow 2003 graduate, remembered how he often targeted Ramaswamy in a lunchroom scheme. Neyer would harass his peers for spare change so he could buy candy — usually a Charleston Chew, in his recollection — and found Ramaswamy, who was not a close friend, to be his easiest mark. On and on it went, until one day Ramaswamy, even as he again coughed up some coins, gently scolded Neyer about how annoying the behavior was.
There were at least four future billionaires in his class, along with at least one future member of Congress: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N,Y., who was a fellow officer in campus political groups. “Someone compared him to Ted Cruz,” a former classmate said of the Texas Republican senator, who as a Harvard Law student would“Vivek is quite likable,” the former classmate continued. “And he was interested in making friends and jokey with people.”. While the two did not always travel in the same social circle as students, they would watch Cincinnati Bengals games together“Vivek was just bursting at the seams” with ideas, one classmate recalled, adding, “JD was always like, ‘I’m a Republican.
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