'Woke, Inc.' author Vivek Ramaswamy enters White House race

[Joe Cool]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woke-inc-author-vivek-ramaswamy-024004297.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vivek Ramaswamy, a wealthy biotech entrepreneur and investor and the author of “Woke, Inc.,” has entered the Republican race for president.

In a video released Tuesday night, Ramaswamy, 37, formally launched his longshot bid by decrying what he called a “national identity crisis” that he claims is driven by a left-wing ideology that has replaced “faith, patriotism and hard work” with “new secular religions like COVID-ism, climate-ism and gender ideology."

“We have obsessed so much over our diversity and our difference that we forgot all the ways we’re really just the same as Americans," he says.

In a Wall Street Journal editorial published at the same time, he pledged to repeal civil service protections for federal workers if he wins, as well as work to eliminate affirmative action, including directing the Justice Department to prosecute “illegal race-based preferences."

[dlk]

1. A name-calling extremist disguised as a "reasonable Republican"

He joins a long list.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Oh, yay. Another vanity campaign.

Can't wait to see him piss away a ton of his own money to find out that his own party will never see him as "just the same." It will be fun watching Mr. "Woke, Inc." run head-first into reality.

[markodochartaigh]

4. With any luck his primary campaign

will get enough traction that DeSantis et al. burn through a lot of their donors' dollars in a big dumpster fire of a primary season. I love the smell of oiligarchs' wasted dollars burning in the morning.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Herein lies the rub:

Trump’s base won’t vote for a non-white candidate, even if they agree with his opinions and proposals.