A Politics in Search of Absolution

“Vivek’s an empty suit,” I said. “He’s just the anti-woke candidate.” “What’s wrong with that?” my friend asked. Where to begin. I gave my friend the tl;dr answer, but if I had to elaborate here’s what I’d say. There are at least two huge problems with running a presidential campaign fueled almost entirely by culture war grievances. <h2>A poor player…</h2> First, it’s a sideshow. Anti-wokeness isn’t a governing agenda. It isn’t even a coherent governing philosophy from which a plausible agenda might be derived. It is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” The real stakes of this election, like every other, concern matters of energy policy, industrial policy, foreign policy, taxes, health care, education, housing, immigration, and more. But on these crucial issues Vivek has nothing concrete to offer. To the extent he manages to formulate something resembling a policy, the word salad he serves up might pass the lax B.S. detectors of a business school classroom, but they have no hope of becoming law. Conservative writer and lawyer David French <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/opinion/ramaswamy-political-ignorance.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">summed it up</a> perfectly: <a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/a-politics-in-search-of-absolution-ba50d315a356">Click Here</a>