Make Vivek Ramaswamy Our Veep!
Dear President Trump,
No one deserves re-election more than you. Like a gladiator, you took the bullets of a vicious mob of corrupt lawyers meant for us. You are the proxy for those of us who love this country and cherish its freedoms. Dems call us deplorable. We say MAGA.
I have read that you have narrowed your list of potential running mates. You have said that you planned to announce your pick before the convention, in Milwaukee July 15.
In light of the changing scene on the Democrat side — and the likelihood of new ticket if the Dems host an open convention in Chicago in August — I write to urge you to consider Vivek Ramaswamy as your vice president.
Sure, he ticks a lot of boxes.
Looking for someone with executive experience? Check. Like you, Mr. President, Vivek is an entrepreneur who founded founded biotech and financial companies and became a billionaire. He speaks the language of the Silicon Valley crowd that should be on your team. He is new to politics, as you were.
Looking for someone of color to parry against Kamala Harris? Check. Except that Harris ran as an Indian-American in 2020, before she morphed into a black American for this year’s race. Vivek knows who he is — a proud son of immigrants from India who moved to Ohio to give their children a chance of a better life — one he now envisions for his own two Indian-American kids.
Looking for someone who early called out the dangers of Woke culture? Check. In 2021, Ramaswamy wrote a NYT bestseller titled Woke Inc that argued business should stay out of politics. A follow-up book, Truths: The Future of American First, made the case that politicians, the media, and corporate special interests have put themselves before the country, turning us against each other over race and gender, betraying the core principles on which the country was founded.
Looking for someone who can draw younger voters? Check. Vivek turns 39 in August and has already been making speeches appealing to Gen Z voters. “My message to Gen Z: you want to be counter-cultural today? Get married. Defend free speech. Pledge allegiance to your nation. Show up on your campus and call yourself a conservative (or a libertarian, or whatever you actually are). Give it a try, I bet it'll be pretty liberating,” he said in a recent speech.
Obviously, he is young, handsome, and innovative. He is a skilled debater who can best anyone on the Dem ticket or in the Dem media. And he is MAGA true, not a RINO, like others on your list. South Dakota’s Gov. Kristi Noem vetoed a bill that would have protected women’s sports from biological male competitors in her state. South Carolina’s former Gov. Nikki Haley attacked you Mr. President as “totally unhinged,” criticizing you over tariffs against China and threatening to leave NATO.
But the main reason you should select Ramaswamy is that he is wicked smart. You can consult him on minutia as well as big picture — how to close the border and deport millions who came illegally, how to bolster the economy quickly.
I hope after you are elected you will also turn to your vice president — whoever it is — and give him or her the most daunting assignment ever devised: Drain the Swamp.
Many on the campaign trail talked about the dangers of an overgrown bureaucracy. Vivek Ramaswamy is the only one I know who has a plan. “You can't fix the administrative state with a chisel,” he sid recently. “It's time to bring a chainsaw to the bureaucracy.” His ideas are inventive, outside-the-box — and might just work.
In September he laid out his plan for unbloating the government. Under his plan, you would eliminate several federal agencies: the FBI, the IRS, the Departments of Education and Commerce, as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That could mean a 75% reduction in civilian employees in the federal workforce within four years.
Rebutting the myth that you would have limited power to order layoffs because federal employees can only be fired “for cause,” he argues that “reductions in force” do no have any such restrictions. Under this scenario, Mr. President, could fire federal employees without cause en mass.
Ever since the Constitutional Convention of 1787, critics have worried the new constitution would give the government too much power over the states and its citizens. That’s why the Bill of Rights was written — to reassure delegates to the ratifying conventions in the states that their individual rights, including the First Amendment rights of speech and religion, could not be abridged. Fearing a ballooning bureaucracy, one delegate expressed horror over the idea of carving out a central capital in the District of Columbia that would be 10 miles square! Imagine.
Now, the Supreme Court, in overruling the Chevron Deference — which gave agency bureaucrats license to interpret vague laws based by Congress — gives you a remarkable opportunity to seize the initiative and finally crush the bureaucracy.
Your debate performance ousted Biden, sending his candidacy into free fall.
I heard Vivek say he does not believe the conspiracy theories that a cabal of Dem leaders plotted the timing. But he does think the timing could benefit them, because an open convention will produce a candidate not as well known to the public, one who would enjoy a honeymoon period from August to the election — and I would add, one who would benefit from a corrupt news media cheering all the way.
Elon Musk likes the idea of Vivek Ramaswamy as your vice president. Me too.
Your thoughts?