Vivek Ramaswamy has told Nigel Farage he is “genuinely worried that the American dream isn’t going to exist” for his two sons and their generation.”
Speaking to GB News Ramaswamy, whose parents emigrated to the US from India forty years ago, said people needed to “step up and do something about it.”
He said last night’s candidates’ debate was “a good opportunity to smoke out some real ideological differences within the Republican party,” adding, “I think they’re deep.”
“I think I am going to have to be the person in this race and on the debate stage who smokes that out.
“Should we fight in foreign wars that do not directly advance American interests or not? Should we actually unapologetically advance American interests even when it comes to domestic economic policy in the face of a climate change agenda that I think is fundamentally anti American at its core?
“There were real disagreements on that stage last night.”
Mr Ramaswamy described the ESG movement as “like a cancer” and the opposite vision of the American Revolution.
“We the people decide how we’re going to address shared challenges from climate change to racial injustice, to whatever they may be. That was the foundation of the American Revolution.
“What you’re seeing in the rise of this new world of corporatism, the ESG movement that pervade capital markets around the world like a cancer is a scepticism of that American revolutionary view.
“They say ‘The people can’t be trusted, so if governments aren’t going to get it right, on climate change, then we the business leaders are going to have to step up and fill the void, working with those government officials to do it.
“And so, what’s at stake in these issues? It’s not just a little annoyance of our modern culture. It is that too, but it reflects a deeper scepticism. that citizens can be trusted at all.”
During the interview the businessman-turned-politician denied that he was an ‘isolationist’ and said he’d be interested in a trade deal with the UK.
“I do think that entering stronger bilateral trade relationships with our allies is a crucial step in declaring economic potential,” he said, with the caveat – “depending on the terms.”
