Vivek Ramaswamy says he is taking Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda to the next level

“I am taking the Trump America first agenda to the next level to actually get the job done, Maria, and I believe I am leading and will continue to lead this field with the specificity of policy proposals and vision that I put on the table,” he said.

Most Republican politicians agree with me, but are too scared to say this out loud: There’s no greater way to fuel racism in our country than to take something away from someone on the basis of their skin color. That’s exactly what affirmative action does. pic.twitter.com/V8lJK1p8d9

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 1, 2023

The Indian-American politician said he is also the only candidate in modern Republican memory who’s committed to ending affirmative action in this country. That is something the US President can do by executive order cancelling Lyndon B Johnson era orders, he claimed.

“A decoupling from the Chinese economy will involve some level of sacrifice, but we can make those sacrifices if we know what we are sacrificing for. That is this thing we call America. At the end of the day, we got into this mess, in part by using capitalism as a vehicle to spread democracy when in fact, China was just using mercantilism on the other side,” he said.

“So what do we need to do? We need to take, I would say, dramatic steps to be able to actually declare economic independence and pull the economic rug out from under China. Now they’re actually vulnerable… Xi Jinping did a lot of damage to the Chinese economy last year to hold on to power for his third term,” he said.