Op-ed: Christmas Crash Outs And The Ramaswamy Response
This article was originally posted on The Heartland Beat
It’s Christmas season again, which means snow is falling, fires are lit in the hearths and Vivek Ramaswamy is crashing out on national news. In what has become a Christmas tradition two years running, Ramaswamy, the ex-member of Federal DOGE department, has decided to pay for another national spotlight to decry a national realization that unlike some prizes in international offices, some parts of America are just not for sale.
Just a few days ago, Ramaswamy contributed an editorial article to the New York Times, a globalist propaganda outlet specializing in destabilizing social cohesion, which they gleefully published. The article was titled “What is an American?” As an anchor baby to immigrants, one does not need to summarize or even directly quote what the content of the piece said, as it is fairly self-explanatory. But for posterity’s sake, Vivek argues that America, and The Republican Party specifically, are currently besieged by a cohort of conservatives seeking to preserve the ‘American Dream’ that their ancestors built and hand it to their descendants rather than selling it to international markets, something Vivek believes is inherently racist. Truly a travesty.
In the piece, Vivek sheds literary tears over the fact that he, as the child of noncitizens from a completely incompatible culture, is not considered to be ‘American enough’ by many on the conservative right, and demands the party fight harder to squeeze these sentiments out of the party in favor of his flavor of internationalist neoconservatism.
While many in the great state of Ohio simply wish Vivek would find another faraway state to grift, unfortunately he will not leave. Which means Ohioans must continue to contend with the billionaire who tries to buy his way into our lives, mandating a response to what has become an annual tantrum from the failed pharmaceutical investor.
But how did we get here? How did we get to a point in the rustbelt where our political options are so unpalatable and yet so similar? To a point where Ohioans will make a choice, barring the rise of a potential viable alternative, between Dr. Coof, the Covid Queen, and an internationalist, both intending to displace millions of Ohioans in the workforce through mass H1B immigration and destroy quality of life through Data Center construction.
Last winter, Vivek launched what has become an infamous tirade deriding the heritage American workforce, a sentiment he again directly referenced in his most recent New York Times piece. To Vivek, the heritage workforce is incompetent, lazy and holding misaligned priorities; which is the exact reason he argues H1B workers are preferred.
The commentary led to such a wide backlash in the leadup to the January inauguration that Vivek was kicked out of the newly formed DOGE cabinet. Heritage is a specific focal point of attack for Vivek in his annual crash outs it seems, where he wants to not only destroy the concept of American identity, if not philosophically, then literally through replacement.
After his unceremonious departure from DOGE, Ramaswamy, who was using his presidential campaign run to avoid a subpoena in Bermuda courts for shady investment practices, desperately wanted to find a way to slide into a political position and campaigned hard to take on the vacated senate seat which DeWine eventually handed to Jon Husted. When that failed, Vivek went on a speaking tour advertising his newest campaign would be for Governor of Ohio, solidifying that much like the petulant groundhog, Ohio would have to see at least two more years of Vivek Ramaswamy.
What transpired next can only be described as a national onslaught to members of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee, in which members of Vivek’s team bombarded the ORSCC with phone calls and text messages offering everything under the sun from financial contributions to even future endorsements from the president if they would just provide a full party endorsement to Vivek over a year before any primary.
In the case of an internationalist like Vivek, buying competitions is the best way to ensure a victory, especially when your ideas are so incredibly unpalatable to the voting populace that a true competition would lead to unmitigated disaster. As Ohioans have been experiencing, nearly every announced platform point from the candidate has gotten ratioed throughout social media, from year-round schooling for children, which saw Vivek attempt to erase the video from X.com announcing it, to literally replacing workers who leave the state with ‘new arrivals’ 1 for 1. Imagine being so bad at politics, all your opponent needs to do is repost your own speeches to trump you in polling.
Most would have found it self-evident that the answer to rising daycare costs is not to put kids in the same state funded institutions they spent the last ten years labeling as ‘indoctrination camps’ year round. But not the ‘biotech genius’ Vivek.
While there are no doubt some members of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee who believe in what Vivek is selling, which shifts depending on his audience, others saw the writing on the wall which was the near financial bankruptcy the party was facing, and something needed to be done.
In 2023, ORP chairman Bob Paduchik stepped down and the party appointed Alex Triantafilou, a former lawyer and judge from Hamilton County. While internal politics have been kept fairly secretive, the reality is the state party under Triantafilou has become nearly bankrupt. This was more evident given the impact it had on the Cuyahoga County GOP, which had to bankroll their own yard signs during the 2024 election cycle, evidenced by the disclaimers at the bottom reading “Made by the Cuyahoga County GOP.” Some sources within Hocking County stated the Vivek camp provided the party a significant stimulus check in exchange for the nomination. Triantafilou, no doubt facing considerable internal scrutiny for poor financial management of the State Party, eagerly accepted the buyout.
At the time of the endorsement controversy, former Ohio State University Coach turned Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel, was mulling over a potential Governor run. No doubt knowing he would not stand up well against a beloved sports legend like Tressel, buying the primary was the surest way to ensure his only competition would be the Democrat party, while also avoiding an internal party debate stage. Traditionally, Ohio conservatives have been in a ‘hold your nose and vote’ mentality for years with official GOP candidates, but so as long as Vivek was the ‘lesser evil’, that plan could fly. Unfortunately for Ohio that may not be the case.
Recent polling is showing Dr. Acton, The Coof Queen, is the rising star in the current Gubernatorial race, not because she is a better candidate, but because the prospect of Vivek Ramaswamy as governor is so incredibly unpalatable to voters the more they listen to him talk, that conservatives are either not engaging or willing to risk a Democrat in office, even in deeply red territories. It is also admittedly hard to attack ‘Dr. Lockdown’ when your party’s chosen candidate sat on the same policy table for Covid direction and was a big fan of tech-backed segregation of the unvaxxed. Though much of that has thankfully be scrubbed from the internet.
It is this realization that has most likely led to the recent winter crash out of Ramaswamy in the neoliberal publication The New York Times. The article represents Ramaswamy’s now ongoing struggle against rising nationalistic sentiments on the conservative side that do not wish to see their future sold off to foreign governments, something the Ramaswamy campaign cannot promise not to do. Most recently, he was caught listed as the keynote speaker for the nation’s leading H1B advocacy nonprofit event of the year, during a time when India is seeking to flood the nation with 50 million more replacement workers to undercut American labor and bolster their own remittances. The backlash became so significant that he was forced to publicly pull out of the event to avoid further hits to his campaign.
The strategy moving forward has been to decry the nationalistic sentiments of the party in Ohio hoping to not sell out their children’s future as ‘racist’ attacks, associating any sentimentality towards heritage as part of a ‘Nick Fuentes’ style ‘groyper’ attack on ‘American Ideals.’ In short, everyone who doesn’t like replacement labor and data centers is, quite literally, a nazi.
If there could be any concise summary of Ramasamy’s recent article crash out its that any attack on his particular definition of ‘American ideals’ is racist and should be denounced roundly by the party he rightfully is trying to purchase. Ramaswamy defines these ideals in his speeches and in his article as ‘merit based work ethics’ in which anyone can simply become American if they have the prerequisite paperwork. Whether that be through buying it, or being imported through sponsorship programs. The piece was no doubt a necessary move from a floundering campaign that cannot seem to overcome the most direct hurdle Vivek has to winning an election victory in America; namely he does not like Americans.
For the last two years we have been forced to suffer the tantrums of Vivek, verbally stomping his feet, first in a tirade demeaning the heritage citizens who built the nation he keeps trying to insert himself into by calling them lazy, ignorant and aimless compared to the superior labor stock of H1B imports. A labor stock so superior and innovative, they cannot seem to win a single international competition in technology.
This year Ohioans must look under our trees and listen to the internationalist cry crocodile tears for not accepting a campaign riddled with obviously detrimental policies and neoliberal ideals and if we do not all accept him and his labor replacement strategy, then ‘you’re all a bunch of racists!’
Ohio is staring down the barrel of a potential Democratic governor who was the state posterchild of medical tyranny not because of racism, but because the bankrupted Ohio GOP has chosen a revolting candidate with policies overtly designed to put people out of work. Truly one must contemplate what Next Christmas will bring to Ohioans as we prepare for December 2026. To Vivek, the American concept of hard work and perseverance can no longer be found in the heritage citizens whose families built the nation and are struggling to support families as they fight jobless to foreign imports. This ideal was overturned in 1965 by other internationalists. To Vivek, a Soros backed billionaire who prefers to buy coronations instead of compete honestly, Americana is only available on import these days. To Vivek, you are nowhere near American as he is.
Vivek isn’t losing because Ohioans are departing from ‘American ideals’. He is losing precisely because we are. The concept of ‘conservativism’ demands we conserve something. Whether that is our land, our family structures, or simply just the belief that there will be a viable future for our children in the same place where we grew up. Despite attempts from internationalists to destroy this ideology, its too deeply rooted in the rustbelt. The longer someone listen’s to Vivek speak, the more one realizes that concept is in direct conflict with his overarching plan for Ohio. In short, merit based competition is killing Vivek’s campaign right now, not racism. And there is nothing more American than that.
