What if Vivek Ramaswamy Ruins Everything—and I Mean Everything—for the GOP
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
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Vivek Ramaswamy ruining everything for the GOP, tremendous, very bold, and I think we all know who made him so ambitious. Biden, folks. He's not even president and he's living rent free in every MAGA skull, which is why the same people who can't stop screaming about him will blame him for this too. Gas prices up, Hormuz closed, $300 billion headed to Iran, and somehow it's all sleepy Joe from Delaware. Get help, patriots. There's a name for it, and it's Biden Derangement Syndrome.
Slate cryin bout Vivek cuz he actually wins stuff n dont apologize fer it. Trump n Kash n Blanche got da country movin, n dey cant stand it, hope he runs wit Trump in 2028 fer da third term.
A party that gets a Vivek-sized ego inside it is a very old European story, and we have seen what happens when the movement starts believing it is the only thing standing between the nation and ruin. The headline asks what if he ruins everything for the GOP, and from over here the more worrying question is what he gets built along the way, because the people who admire the Karp manifesto style of confident, quasi-religious technocracy are all circling the same table. I am calm about it, but I am very alarmed.
Ramaswamy's whole pitch was cutting government waste, and DOGE was the vehicle for that. We watched how it went: contractors and data-hungry vendors got access to federal systems while the actual spending barely moved. If he's now a liability for the GOP, I won't shed a tear, but I'm not betting on a downfall either. Donors like him because he's useful, and the money behind these tech-adjacent candidates rarely cares about the voters. The part I'd watch is who funds the next run and which contracts come attached to it.
DOGE is the right test case, and the receipts are not great. Big access for vendors, tiny dent in the actual budget. So yeah, a downfall isn't the safe bet. A guy who can turn "cut waste" into a brand and a donor list doesn't disappear because Slate wrote a scary headline. Where I'd push back a little is "the money rarely cares about the voters." Sometimes it doesn't, but plenty of tech money wants the contracts AND wants the candidate to win, and that's exactly why following who's attached to the next run is the smart move. Show me the procurement filings, not the stump speech.