Vivek Ramaswamy intensifies presidential buzz and lays out country’s vision with impending decision in 2024

Entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy signaled he was heading into a presidential race, hoping his vision for the country would separate from what will likely be a crowded GOP primary field.

Ramaswamy, who told Fox News Digital in an interview that he would decide whether to run for president before the end of February, said his vision was to restore “national identity in America”, denouncing the “vacuum” in the younger generations. who fill the void with “the poison of revivalism, climatism, transgenderism and COVIDism for that matter”.

“Yeah, I’ve accomplished things, but so has everyone who ran in this race. I think I’m running on a vision that I believe I can express what it means to be an American in 2023,” Ramaswamy said.

The 37-year-old Ohio native warned that the ‘real threat’ to freedom in 2023 is the ‘merger of state power and corporate power’ while slamming Republicans who ‘want to come back in 1980″ and extol “Reaganian solutions”.

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“What sets Reagan apart is that he did what he had to do in his time. He challenged his party orthodoxies and led a national revival at a time when America was in the middle from his last national identity crisis in the late 1970s. I think we’re in the late 1970s now,” Ramaswamy said. “I think 2024 could be a crushing election if we focus on those American ideals merit, freedom of expression and open debate.”

Main priorities

Ramaswamy calls for a ‘total decoupling’ from communist China, which has claimed the threat to America is ‘worse’ today than the Soviet Union was during the Cold War since China makes the ‘shoes on our feet and the phones in our pockets”. ”

He, however, acknowledged that removing the economic band-aid from the CCP “is not going to be easy,” admitting “it will require some sacrifice of conveniences in the short term,” but stressed that the ends would justify the means.

As the son of Indian migrants who passed through America’s ‘front door’ legally, Ramaswamy is a strong supporter of merit-based immigration and would not grant leniency to those who break the law. when entering the country.

Among his other top priorities are “restoring free speech,” which would involve making political expression a civil right and outlawing Big Tech censorship carried out at the behest of the government, as well as “dismantling “Affirmative Action and the “New Climate Religion”. “, what he calls a “cancer of the American soul”.

A problem that “Woke, Inc.” The author has long sounded the alarm, but what is not known to the general public is ESG, which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance, a corporate movement which, according to him, harms ultimately to consumers and business owners by prioritizing social justice and the green agenda. If he goes on the campaign trail, he said he will have to explain to voters how “their own money is being used against them” with the implementation of various wake-up policies.

“I think there are two things you don’t mess with in an American. You don’t mess with my kids and you don’t mess with my money,” the multi-millionaire investor told Fox News Digital.

In 2022, Ramaswamy took matters into his own hands by founding asset management firm Strive, which aims to be an alternative to what he calls “woke” investment giant BlackRock, a major force in the ESG movement.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a frequent Fox News guest, said one of his top priorities if he becomes president would be “total decoupling” from China. (FoxNews)

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Foreign Police

Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital there are two “top” foreign policy priorities the next president should take on.

The first is economic “decoupling” from China, calling for Churchill-style action against the CCP while “vigorously protecting Taiwan.”

The second is the ongoing fentanyl outbreak from the southern border, pointing to the unholy alliance between China as a supplier and its distributors within the Mexican drug cartels, whom he considers “terrorists.” due to the death toll and impact on homelessness in the He said building the wall was part of the solution but “it’s not enough”.

What should be done? “Shamelessly decimate the cartels.”

“Come on Mohammed Atta, Bin Laden-style airstrikes, Soleimani-style airstrikes, special forces, etc. We’re eliminating them,” Ramaswamy said. “I think it has to be a shock and awe strategy so they don’t have an adaptation cycle. Again, not something you’re supposed to say in good company.”

Regarding the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, Ramaswamy warned that the conflict “cannot be a permanent loss of money for the United States” while refraining from offering details on what he would do differently as president, insisting his “north star” foreign policy would prioritize “real threats” to the country like China and the drug cartels.

Vivek Ramaswamy says if elected president he would approve of airstrikes against Mexican drug cartels, which he considers “terrorists”. (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Big tech

As for how he would tackle Big Tech as president, Ramaswamy said transparency would be the “first step” and suggested he would take a page from Elon Musk’s playbook with the Twitter files by posting what it calls “State Action Files”.

“That means any time a government actor over the last five years has pressured a private actor, a private company, to do something that the government couldn’t do directly, we put a satellite on that,” he said. “We would knock over that log and see what crawls, and I can assure you it won’t be pretty. But sometimes you have to see the ugly before you get to the solutions.”

He would also urge Congress to repeal Section 230 C.2., which he says specifically allows tech giants to remove otherwise constitutionally protected content without liability, which he says has been armed. to silence political discourse.

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If Ramaswamy enters the race, he may stand out as one of the youngest and wealthiest candidates in the entire GOP field. In 2016, Forbes reported that his net worth was $600 million, which is likely to exceed most Republican presidential candidates except former President Trump, who Forbes said had a net worth. of $3.2 billion in 2022.

At 37, Ramaswamy would almost certainly be the youngest candidate running and if elected the youngest president in US history. Additionally, his entry would make him the first unelected official and the second first-generation American Indian to seek the White House in the 2024 election cycle, the first being the former ambassador to the UN and former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, who pitched it. application last week.