Venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of the book “Woke Inc.,” announced on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on Tuesday that he’s running for president.
Ramaswamy’s long-shot candidacy tries to fill the role that idea-driven outsiders have played in presidential politics, from Steve Forbes’ 1996 GOP flat tax campaign to Andrew Yang’s 2020 Democratic universal basic income push.
In an interview with Axios, Ramaswamy said he will be focusing on addressing what he views as America’s biggest challenge — a national identity crisis that has left America adrift.
“American today is so hungry for meaning and identity at a moment in our history when the things that used to fill that void of purpose — be it faith, patriotism, hard work, family, you name it — those things have disappeared,” Ramaswamy told Axios.”What the conservative movement needs to do is more than just criticize the poison that fills the void but fill the vacuum with a vision of American national identity that runs so deep that it dilutes these other religions, from wokism to Islamism,” he said.
Ramaswamy would be a long-shot candidate in a Republican presidential field that has coalesced around fighting the Left on cultural battles.
But Ramaswamy argues that he was one of the first voices that spoke out against “woke capitalism” and the rise of the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) movement — issues that leading Republicans have taken up as top priorities.
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