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When you think of someone in the MAGA movement trying their hardest to destroy all respect for the Republican party, you might imagine a generic, pro-war freak.
Lindsey Graham is the first name that might come to mind. Graham has done whatever he can to keep the ongoing Iranian conflict from ending, and he has gone as far as having multiple talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind President Donald Trump's back. You might also think of Laura Loomer, a failed grifter who spends all day on X spouting nonsense that even her close pro-Trump mutuals disavow.
These are people who don't need to have their brains picked by a scientist in order to discover their true intentions.
But the greatest traitor to the American way is not some overly moronic Loomer-esque influencer on Twitter, or one of the War Dogs like Graham. Instead, that title goes to Vivek Ramaswamy, whose entire life completely contradicts the American way.
Early Life
For starters, Ramaswamy wasn't even born to U.S citizens. Both his father, Vadakanchery, an engineer at General Electric, and his mother, Geetha, were illegal at the time that they had Vivek, and Vadakanchery has still refused to pursue U.S citizenship to this day.
Of course, that didn't affect Vivek at all: he benefited from birthright citizenship, meaning he could live here his entire life even if his parents were deported.
As India, the country Ramaswamy's parents illegally immigrated from, is one of the closest allies of Israel, Ramaswamy has developed most of his political career based solely on supporting the Zionist cause. Back when he was a Yale Law student, he was a member of Shabtai, a Jewish intellectual discussion society that has received support from Benny Shabtai, a major donor to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces organization. Its co-founder and rabbinical advisor, Rabbi Shmully Hecht, was considered a close friend and mentor by Ramaswamy.
Both his Indian ancestry and his grooming into the perfect scammer by Hecht transformed him into one of the most loyal Zionists in America, and he began to call Israel a "Divine Nation" that deserved strong U.S diplomatic backing.
Connections to Thiel
Vivek Ramaswamy's most notable connection since Yale is Peter Thiel. Ramaswamy and Thiel have known each other since 2011, back when Ramaswamy was still at Yale Law School. Thiel, who had become very popular because of PayPal, had flown in to Yale to give a speech and then held a lunch seminar for a select few Yale Law students, amongst them Vivek Ramaswamy, who later described Thiel as a "sharp guy" whose business track record was "legendary."
Beyond their friendship in general, Thiel was also amongst the biggest investors in many of Ramaswamy's startups.
For example, Ramaswamy founded a startup named Chapter in 2020, alongside Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz and Corey Metzman, for a deceptively simple reason: saving seniors money and stress regarding Medicare. It was essentially just the next big "save old people from the horrors of Medicare" scam. Both Peter Thiel and JD Vance, Thiel's apprentice, invested heavily in Chapter. In September 2021, Narya Capital, the VC firm Vance had set up the previous year, invested over $17 million, and Peter Thiel personally invested in Chapter himself. Vance initially held a seat on the board of directors, but left when he ran for U.S Senate, allowing Thiel to join the board himself.
Thiel constantly promoted Chapter whenever he was given the opportunity. Around the time he invested in it, he stated that "[Chapter]'s ability to help people navigate Medicare's bureaucratic maze makes it both admirable and valuable."
Thiel also invested heavily in Strive Asset Management, a firm that positioned itself as a generic alternative to asset managers like BlackRock, and which Ramaswamy co-founded in 2022. Interestingly, by the time it had launched in May of that year, it had already raised over $20 million from several notable investors, including Thiel, Narya Capital, and Bill Ackman.
Most recently, Ramaswamy was a co-chair of the failed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside Elon Musk, historically a very close associate of Thiel's since the early 2000s, although Musk likes to claim that Thiel is too weird for him nowadays.
Other Connections
Vivek has also been connected to Glenn Dubin, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein who donated over $100K to American Exceptionalism PAC (a pro-Ramaswamy Super PAC) in 2023, back when Ramaswamy was interested in running for President. After the recent Epstein Files releases exposed Dubin's ties to Epstein, Ramaswamy utterly ignored the controversy itself and simply stated that any money donated to him by Dubin would be donated to anti-trafficking causes and that the PAC would refund whatever it was given.
However, Ramaswamy's PAC ended up dissolving, and conveniently, the money was never refunded or donated at all.
Ohio
Since he failed to beat Donald Trump in the Republican primary for the 2024 presidential election, Ramaswamy has been warming up to both him and his supposed pro-Israel rival, Nikki Haley, as much as humanly possible, and it appears that it paid off for him.
Ramaswamy is currently running to become Ohio's next governor and has been backed by hundreds of Trump allies (including current governor Mike DeWine) and President Trump himself. His running mate is Rob McColley. McColley's name is special in this instance because Les Wexner, an associate of Epstein's, gave $5,000 to him in 2024-25.
Even ignoring his connections to Thiel and Dubin, Ramaswamy has completely fumbled any chance that he will earn the vote of young voters, for two simple reasons.
Attacks On "Groypers"
While Ramaswamy was initially just fine with pretending to ignore Nick Fuentes, he had become incredibly critical of the Gen-Z-based right-wing "Groyper" group that Fuentes led. He specifically remarked that "[Groypers] have no place in the conservative movement, period" and stated that "it is unacceptable to spew poison towards Jews, Indians, or any other ethnic group."
These statements came at a horrible time: since 2025, Nick has never been more popular with young conservatives who found themselves tired of Trump's catering to Israel and his general failure to accomplish anything beyond closing the border since his return to the White House last year. Ramaswamy’s decision to criticize Groypers in a state filled with young people who identify with them is a decision that more likely will come back to bite him, especially as they have repeatedly punished the mainstream conservative establishment for their repeated aid to Israel.
Comments towards young men
Ramaswamy has also been unpopular with young Americans as a direct result of public comments and posts made to Gen-Z voters. Ramaswamy has stated that young voters have a “black hole in their hearts”, and he described young people as “empty souls living meaningless lives” when he was running against Donald Trump in the Republican primary for the presidential election last year.
Ramaswamy has refused to properly address the comments he has been making, instead simply stating that everything he has said about young people is “the truth“ and that criticism of these statements will not change that.
Projections
With that being said, although Ohio has previously been projected as “Likely Republican” for the 2026 gubernatorial election by sources such as Cook Political Report and Sabato’s, the reality is that the race is neck and neck. Every source that isn’t a betting network on the level of sites such as Polymarket shows that Ramaswamy’s Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, is likely to narrowly win the gubernatorial election. In a report by Emerson College on December 11th, Acton was projected to win with 46% of the vote against Ramaswamy’s 45%.
Even though Democrats haven’t had a governor in Ohio for about two decades, and even though virtually nobody knows about Acton’s promises for Ohio, they have been encouraged to vote in her favor simply because of the nonsense that Ramaswamy has put out since before he chose to run in the gubernatorial election in Ohio.
This race is nothing more to Ramaswamy than a pharmaceutical company idea that he can manipulate to scam everybody out of their money, or, in this case, votes. It's very obvious. Ramaswamy has never been good at hiding how corrupt he is, and very soon, that fact will destroy him, whether he wins the gubernatorial election or not.
