'If you publicly call Usha Vance...': Vivek Ramaswamy slams Nick Fuentes, opens up on 'go back to India' slurs

GOP leader Vivek Ramaswamy condemned far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes who has started getting mainstream Conservative platforms and said, "if you publicly call Usha Vance a "jeet", then you have no place in the conservative movement, period." The support for a fellow Indian-origin individual and a former classmate who is now the Second Lady of America came in an opinion piece that Ramaswamy wrote for the New York Times on "What is an American?"

Ramaswamy argued that white nationalism, the Groyper movement, is not, in his view, the correct vision of who an American is. "My social media feeds are littered with hundreds of slurs, most from accounts that I don’t recognize, about “pajeets” and “street shi**ers” and calls to deport me “back to India” (I was born and raised in Cincinnati and have never resided outside the US)"

'Groyperism on the right, Zohran Mamdani-infused socialism on the left'

Ramaswamy said a rising sense of economic insecurity is pushing people to Groyperism on the right and Zohran Mamdani-infused socialism on the left. "So what’s the solution? We need to imagine a new American dream that delivers economic empowerment while also filling the next generation’s hunger for purpose and belonging. To achieve that vision, four conditions must be met," Ramaswamy wrote.

The four suggestions are

First, Groyper transgressions should be condemned by conservative leaders. Calling Usha Vance names, or calling Hitler cool can not be allowed to gradually become legitimized. "That doesn’t mean censorship; it means moral clarity instead of indulgence," the Ohio Guv candidate explained.

Second, cost of living should be reduced.

Third, create broad-based participation in wealth generation from stock market gains.

Fourth, provide America with the shared national project Americans badly need. He spoke about something equivalent to Apollo mission. "Perhaps it’s establishing a base on the moon to achieve nuclear fusion in a way that powers the creation of artificial intelligence without negative externalities and constraints on Earth," he said.