The entrepreneur and author, who has no political experience, may struggle to distinguish himself from all the other Republicans battling “wokeness.”
announcing his candidacy was quite clear on that score: “It may seem presumptuous for a 37-year-old political outsider to pursue the highest office in the land, but I am running on a vision for our nation — one that revives merit in every sphere of American life.”
Missing from Ramaswamy’s “elevator pitch” is any explanation of how merit is established, which will be music to the ears of people who do well in life without policies aimed at identifying worthiness that is ignored by “the market” or various bosses. Aput its finger on the Ayn Rand–ish assumptions that underlie Ramaswamy’s take on life:
Ramaswamy wrings his hands about what will happen to, say, the Trump supporters inside Google and demands that conservatives be accorded protected-class status under the terms of civil rights law, since he holds that the “Church of Diversity” is a civil religion whose tenets are to be questioned only at one’s peril. Here he waxes hyperbolic: “According to corporate America it’s anti-semitic to compare liberals to Nazis, but praiseworthy to compare conservatives to them.
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