Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism
By: Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling (The New Republic)
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Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn't Christian.
Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGA world.
The Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former DOGE co-chief came face-to-face with the racism rampant among American conservative youth culture Tuesday when he headlined a Turning Point USA event in Montana.
Speaking at Montana State University, Ramaswamy fielded disturbing questions about how he believed he could adequately participate in electoral politics when his religion and ethnic identity don't align with stereotypical white American ideals.
"Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other God," said a male student. "How can you represent the constituents of Ohio who are 64 percent Christian if you are not a part of that faith?"
"If you are an Indian, a Hindu, coming from a different culture, different religion than those who founded this country, those who grew this country, built this country, made this country the beautiful thing that it is today," he continued. "What are you conserving? You are bringing change. I'll be 100 percent honest with you—Christianity is the one truth."
A female student asked Ramaswamy why he chose to "masquerade as a Christian."
Before he became an alternative fixture in Trumpworld, Ramaswamy was a biotech investor, an entrepreneur, and a 2024 Republican presidential candidate. But none of those notches on his belt could atone for the color of his skin or his religion with some members of the Turning Point USA crowd, which was apparently more fixated on Christian nationalism than honoring the First Amendment's allowances for freedom of religion.
"I'm an ethical monotheist, that's the way I would describe my faith," Ramaswamy said in another jarring exchange with a student. "Do you think it's inappropriate for someone who's a Hindu to be a U.S. president?"
"No I think it's—" another male student started, before stopping himself. "But isn't Charlie Kirk's organization founded on Christian values as well? And isn't America based on what Protestantism is and based on how those values are? Wouldn't that contradict what your beliefs are?"
The tour stop had been scheduled before Turning Point's founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September. Kirk launched Turning Point to spread conservative ideology among America's youth.
There are some 900 official college chapters and around 1,200 high school chapters of Turning Point USA across the nation, but the conservative advocacy nonprofit received more than 54,000 inquiries for new campus chapters in the 48 hours after Kirk's assassination, TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet announced last month.
Read more about Ramaswamy:Vivek Ramaswamy's Latest Idea Is Dumber Than the "Gulf of America"Malcolm Ferguson/October 10, 2025/3:52 p.m. ET
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says "I" When Discussing Trump's Powers
Miller's slip of the tongue reveals who's really in charge.
Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.
"Illinois governor says we're provoking actions that are unlawful," Miller said on CNN on Monday. "Why would the mere presence—just think about this for a second. If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?"
Miller's use of the first person is alarming here, suggesting that he—an unelected deputy chief of staff—has either the complete authority or an outsize influence on the administration's most authoritarian decisions.
"Miller says quiet part out loud," one user wrote on X. "He determines where to put ICE, CBP & other federal agencies, but he is also doing the same for various National Guards. An unelected staffer making these decisions, where is the president? Both Miller and Vought are running this admin."
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Poor little Trumpster dupe.
His 15 minutes of fame should have ended a year and a half ago.
It could be worse - he could have been an atheist!!!
GASP!!!!
... a swing and a miss in the maga civil war, bummer. hopefully it'll take the next 3 years for them to sort out their differences. have you noticed elon's continuous bob and weave movements while he's on stage at some events lately?
Who saw that coming?
The Christian nationalists are getting bolder.
Well, their campaign has largely been successful.
They showed us that they can get people fired, even if temporarily, for not being sufficiently mournful over the death of a Christian nationalist who celebrated a vicious attack on a person of the opposite political persuasion from himself.
They showed us that they can engage in cancel culture, while complaining about cancel culture.
They showed us that their hypocrisy will always get a pass, Jesus's teachings about hypocrisy be damned.
But we're seeing it bite a few of them or their panderers in the ass. Ramaswamy is in the "find out" phase of his political career.
christo-fascism is a marriage made in heaven for the intellectually challenged, as long as you're white I guess ...
Well, the closer you resemble Jesus the closer you are to God, so being white is a prerequisite... /s
I believe that Christians God is completely fictional, just like the Little Mermaid, so I guess they can make him whatever color they like, who am I to judge someone else's imagination.
I had forgotten about him. Can't see why any MAGA wouldn't like him because he professed extreme Trump views... Oh, yeah... Trump views = fucked up
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No shit