Ramaswamy: Bring down ‘Woke,’ bring back America

The 2024 presidential race gets more exciting each day. Now 37-yearold entrepreneur businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has entered the race as the newest Republican candidate.

Whether this political novice has a chance at winning the highest elective office in the land remains to be seen. But for sure, he has something to say and contribute.

And worth noting is now the first two candidates to announce following former President Donald Trump’s entering the race, Mr. Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley, are children of Indian immigrants.

I re-quote the statistic I cited last week that “more than half of America’s start-up companies valued at $1 billion or more” were founded by immigrants.

Inside our country, a vast leftwing culture has risen to power, peddling a message that ours is an evil, racist country that can only be fixed by seizing power and force-feeding “woke” values onto all our institutions.

But these successful firstgeneration offspring of immigrants raise the important question: If our country is so horrible, why is there no place on Earth where more want to come and gain the privilege of citizenship?

And when they come, they know what to do. They study, work and follow the path to great success, which is only possible in a country that is free.

At age 37, Mr. Ramaswamy’s resume includes degrees from Harvard and Yale, founding and leading a successful biotechnology start-up firm, founding an investment firm that focuses on traditional goals of profitability and merit, and disavowing the politically correct ESG (environmental,