![]() When reminded that while the nation was built on rule of law and self-governance, it also was built on the practice of slavery, he pushes back by asking and answering his own rhetorical question:īut as he sees it, America is getting a bad rap for that, compared to say, China or Iran or Pakistan. He says the nation is in a “1776 moment,” one where we must collectively decide if we will “embrace the radicalism of the ideals that actually unite us” or allow that window to close - hinting that the nation faces peril without a proven leader to navigate the country through what he sees as a dark period. We don't have to be Carthage.Ramaswamy visits POLITICO's offices in Arlington, Va., June 5, 2023. And I just truly do believe that we don't have to be a nation in inevitable national decline. But I also expect and hope to unite the country in the process if we're doing it based on principled footing rather than vengeance and grievance. And so I think I am taking that far further than Trump did. It's about reviving the ideals that the country was founded on and to actually advance those in the forms of policy. Ronald Reagan used the phrase, others have used it throughout American history, too. I would embrace the label of "America First" to point out that America first is bigger than Donald Trump. I wouldn't call myself a disciple of Donald Trump, no. He wants to expand the "America First" movement beyond Donald Trump. I want to see the conditions of who's under what commitments, you know, the conditions for the debate stage. Will he support another Republican nominee? Time will tell. It's going to happen because we make it so. But I'm looking to actually elevate that debate because our revival of civic pride and civic duty isn't going to happen automatically. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask a young American to do the same thing, or else if they don't want to do that, to at least serve for six months in the military or a first responder role or else to have some life experience as an adult, at least by the age of 25.Īnd the good news is it requires a constitutional amendment which would require broad, widespread national consensus to ever get passed which I think is appropriate. If you've been a taxpaying green card holder for 10 years, you still have to pass that test to vote. We already ask immigrants to know this, by the way, so it's not making up some new test - no matter your skin color. Wade, which is why I would not sign a federal abortion ban. So if abortion is a form of murder, which is the pro-life position, and I am pro-life, then it would make no sense for that to be the one law that was still governed at the federal level.īut a federal ban violates the constitutional principle that led us to actually overturn Roe v. I think Dobbs was correct to overturn it because the federal government has no business here. ![]() I think it was constitutionally wrongly decided. But I am pro-life.įor years, I was an opponent of Roe v. No federal abortion restrictions - the self-described "pro-life" candidate says it is an issue for the states. I have a lot of issues with the suppression of information by social media companies and internet companies that led up to that election.īut in the technical sense of, you know, do I think that there was large-scale ballot fraud or whatever that changed the election outcome based on how the votes were counted? I have seen no evidence of that. ![]() I'm deeply bothered by the Hunter Biden laptop story suppression that really was in the name of suppressing misinformation, actually created misinformation across the news media. Technology Facebook And Twitter Limit Sharing 'New York Post' Story About Joe Biden I don't think there's an American today who believes these things to be false. I mean, we had slavery in this country, right? We had even a period after slavery in the Reconstruction Era where voting rights weren't fully secured for Black Americans, for women, until, you know, that was constitutionally ordained in the later amendment. You'd have to have your head in the sand to read our history and not understand that there have been many points in our national history when we have been less than perfect and living up to our ideals. Ramaswamy acknowledges that racist policies have existed at times in American history and he's "open to discussing" what role the government should play in addressing enduring social and racial inequality. It's not the America that I learned to pledge allegiance to as a kid. ![]() And it's the America I see sometimes today. I think our strength is what unites us across that diversity. I don't think our diversity is our strength. And so I grew up into a generation where I was taught - we were all taught, I think - to believe that diversity is our strength. It is the set of values that unite us together as a people. The most interesting part of us is not our gender identity or the shade of melanin that we have on a given day.
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