Ana Marie Cox is a political journalist and author. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Sports Illustrated, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post, among other places.
Long-shot GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s viciously uninformed and recreationally cruel statement on Wednesday’s mass shooting in Maine may have escaped your attention. In case you missed it — and part of me hopes that you did — Maine police say that main suspect Robert Card had recently struggled with his mental health and spent a short time at a military-run mental health facility this summer.
Ramaswamy is not serious. Perhaps the most egregiously retrograde and potentially disastrous aspect of Ramaswamy’s posturing-in-the-form-of-a-policy-recommendation is his call for “less reliance on pharmaceuticals” but “more reliance on faith-based approaches that restore purpose to people’s lives.” Look, spirituality is great.
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