Vivek Ramaswamy: The Happy Warrior

Vivek Ramaswamy is moving up in the polls. He is just really good at what he does. Jack made an interesting point about how people are attracted to the "Happy Warrior" who has the ability to deliver bad news in a hopeful and powerful tone. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fox poll that's out today in which Viveke has gone
up a half dozen points while Desciantis has dropped a
half dozen points since the last Fox poll. Is more
people are seeing vivike Ramaswami, and he is just really
good as a speaker. He's just really good at it. Anyway,
here's a little taste of Viveke if you haven't caught
his act yet. Answering the question around trans stuff, which

(00:20):
is often a very thorny question for Republicans.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't have a negative few of same sex couples.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I believe that we live in a country where free adults.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Should be free to.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Address how they want behave how they won. That's fine,
but you don't oppress. You don't become oppressive by foisting
that on others. And that especially includes kids, because kids
aren't the same as adults. We have a tyranny of
the minority in this country, and I refuse to say
that that somehow changes the language we use, changes how
women compete in sports, changes with bathrooms people use, and

(00:51):
let alone change the way we indoctrinate our children. Now,
I stand against that kind of tyranny, and I will
do it with civility. I will do it with respect
for every human being.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's all so subtle, but for some reason, some people
can say that kind of stuff and not sound mean
and angry like him, and some people sound mean and angry,
and the happy warrior tends to Trump is a weird
combo of that. He's everything is going to hell while
being a happy warrior. It's like fun to be at

(01:21):
one of his rallies where he's talking about everything going
to hell, where it's like when Bob Dole came outside
Everything's going to hell. He left miserable. You leave a
Trump place like you're at a party, even though he
was talking about everything's going to hell. So's it's all again.
This aspect of it being about your personality and charisma

(01:42):
thing is not good, but that is the way we
do it.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I think, what a great observation about Donald Trump. This
is a bit of an old reference, but it's like
two members of Metallica teamed up with two members of
the Banana Splits to from.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
The Band.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Or the Archies or something.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Wow, I'm sorry, he interrupted, Go ahead, Well, anyway, I
think because of the way we judge debates and because
of the skill sets the way they match up.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I think it could absolutely be the end of the
Ron de Santis campaign. I think it comes to an
end next week in that any remaining big time donors
and all the pundits I read say they're very, very
lukewarm on DeSantis right now and giving him more money
and saying that's it. He just does not have it.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
So Jack is head over heels, Gaga Puppy loved Horny
Teenager for vivek Roma Samaswami the dark Side coming up
in a moment.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I don't appreciate the characterization, but