Is the future of the Republican Party more liberal, nationalist, or both?
Joining us today is entrepreneur, author and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Over the past few months, he has been working hard to promote a so-called “Libertarian Nationalist Alliance”. He is at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention trying to convince Libertarians to vote Republican. reasonZach Weissmueller also met Ramaswamy at the Republican National Convention, where he tried to persuade MAGA supporters to become more liberal. reasonof Stephanie Slade saw him expounding on “national liberalism” at the meeting. National Conservative Conference. The event was also attended by Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance, who owns different vision For the conservative movement. These dueling visions are the theme of today’s episode.
notes: The episode was plagued by technical issues due to a software glitch. The dialogue is complete except for about a nine-minute segment (marked in the episode).
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Sources cited in this conversation:
- Vivek Ramaswamy’s full speech at the National Conservative Conference
- JD Vance’s full speech at the National Conservatism Conference
- “Vivek Ramaswamy debuts ‘National Liberalism’ at NatCon 4”, Stephanie Slade
- Vivek Ramaswamy: Don’t “replace the left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state”.
- “What I Learned from Archaism” by Llewellyn Rockwell
- Producer: John Oosterhout