“I believe in engagement, not disengagement,” Ramaswamy told me on Friday as we chatted in a hotel lobby during his break between a roundtable with local homebuilders and a tennis match.
“Human beings only value something that we have a stake in creating,” he explained. “The Founding Fathers came up with the land ownership voting requirement, because we don’t value something that we simply inherit.” “When those things disappear, we latch onto other forms of superficial purpose and identity, like wokeism and transgenderism and the climate cult,” he said. “But the right has actually been very poor at filling a vacuum of purpose and meaning and identity.”winred/ vivek 2024 store
On Friday evening, Ramaswamy courted primary voters at a boat cruise dinner hosted by the Belknap County GOP in nearby Laconia. He worked the room for three hours, shaking hands and embracing many MAGA-hat wearing attendees. “I think Ramaswamy is eminently qualified, and I think he should be vice president of the United States,” Bradley said. “I hope that Donald Trump picks him.”