Vivek Ramaswamy: What Is an American?

Perrysburg resident Casey Putsch challenging Ramaswamy for OH GOP gubernatorial nomination https://t.co/kBZ4PdgKZ8 pic.twitter.com/4OscT7xYCS

— 13 Action News (@13abc) December 16, 2025

It’s 100% true. I’m running for Governor of Ohio AGAINST Vivek to save the State! https://t.co/ooub44UIgm pic.twitter.com/MbI5FECn59

— Casey the car guy Putsch (@CaseyPutsch) December 16, 2025

Are you excited to vote in the 2026 midterms?

New York Times:

“There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible. One vision of American identity is based on lineage, blood and soil: Inherited attributes matter most. The purest form of an American is a so-called heritage American — one whose ancestry traces back to the founding of the United States or earlier.

This view is now popularized by the Groyper right, a rapidly ascendant online movement that argues for the creation of a white-centric identity. This is a predictable response — one that I anticipated in my 2022 book, “Nation of Victims” — to anti-white discrimination over the last half-decade, and it is no longer just a fringe viewpoint.

The alternative (and, in my view, correct) vision of American identity is based on ideals.

Americanness isn’t a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry. It’s binary: Either you’re an American or you’re not. You are an American if you believe in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S. Constitution, in the American dream, and if you are a citizen who swears exclusive allegiance to our nation.

As Ronald Reagan quipped, you can go to live in France, but you can’t become a Frenchman; but anyone from any corner of the world can come to live in the United States and become an American. No matter your ancestry, if you wait your turn and obtain citizenship, you are every bit as American as a Mayflower descendant, as long as you subscribe to the creed of the American founding and the culture that was born of it. This is what makes American exceptionalism possible …”

Hell would freeze over before I would vote for Vivek Ramaswamy.

Fortunately, that scenario is not a bridge that I would have to cross here in Alabama in 2026, but it illustrates where we are at in Late MAGA due to Trump’s dismal endorsements.

Note: Instead of sitting out the election in disgust, you should consider voting against Vivek in the primary.