Vivek Ramaswamy’s Foreign Policy: Punish Friends, Reward Enemies

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is the model of a high-school debate champion. Articulate, clean-cut, and with the appearance of sophistication, he is able to make the most absurd propositions appear plausible. Not since Barack Obama hit the scene has a figure demonstrated so well the utility of rhetorical training for political purposes.

The virtue needed in a president, however, is not the ability to sell bad ideas but to develop good ones, and to educate the public to understand and support them. When this metric is applied, Vivek’s merit as a potential president becomes quite questionable.

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is the model of a high-school debate champion. Articulate, clean-cut, and with the appearance of sophistication, he is able to make the most absurd propositions appear plausible. Not since Barack Obama hit the scene has a figure demonstrated so well the utility of rhetorical training for political purposes.

The virtue needed in a president, however, is not the ability to sell bad ideas but to develop good ones, and to educate the public to understand and support them. When this metric is applied, Vivek’s merit as a potential president becomes quite questionable.