For Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican leader who not so long ago dared to predict that President Joe Biden would not win the Democratic presidential nomination in November's election, it is not opposition to one candidate, but opposition to a managerial apparatus.
The Indian-American entrepreneur-turned-politician said on Monday there were intense backroom maneuvers within the Democratic Party for possibly replacing Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as its candidate for the November 5 elections, amid a lot of worry.
“We're not actually running against a candidate here. We're running against a machine. That's a deep understanding of what's going on that requires rejecting some of the things you might otherwise think,” Ramaswamy said in a 15-minute long video posted on various social media platforms.
During a Republican presidential debate last November, Ramaswamy, aged 38, had anticipated Biden's failure to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, a stance dismissed by much of the mainstream media at the time as a 'conspiracy theory.'
On Sunday, Biden surprised the nation by announcing his withdrawal from the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, who now stands as the sole Democratic Party contender.
“It's not Biden that we were up against at all. His cognitive deficits, and I would argue Kamala Harris's cognitive deficits, they're not a bug to the people who control them. Those cognitive deficits are a feature. It is a wheel of the managerial class crushing the will of everyday citizens, not just in the Republican Party, but even in the Democratic Party,” he said.
He added that while Democrats may not align completely with Donald Trump or the Republican Party's current stances, disagreement is acceptable. "No two Americans agree on 100 per cent of policies. That's a rarity," Ramaswamy, who suspended his Republican presidential campaign in January and endorsed former President Donald Trump, remarked.
"But you do deserve a president and a party that at least tells you the truth, not just when it's easy, but when it's hard and when it's uncomfortable," he continued.
“Beyond just this individual game, whether it's Joe or whether it's Kamala, we got to realise the thing that we're actually solving for is defeating that machine, the rise of that managerial class, bigger than any other individual, it embodies the philosophy of what the modern left is really about,” he said in the video that went viral on social media.
“It's not about individual agency. It's that collective will. That's what this machine really is about.... That's really what we're running against. That's what we're running to defeat. That's the system we're running to break. That's what the deep state is really about,” Ramaswamy said.
“This is about the unelected managerial, you could call them elites, you could call them bureaucrats, you could call them monarchs, who have no accountability to the people, but whose decisions are actually most impactful on how citizens live their lives,” he said and urged the Democrats to put their best possible nominee for the elections.
Ramaswamy alleged that the Democratic Party and its movement have prioritized keeping former President Trump out of office as their fundamental reason for existence. "They've tried every way to stop him within the legal system and extra-legally as well."
"All their efforts to keep him from the ballot have not just failed but backfired making Trump and the Republican Party more popular," he concluded.
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