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Vivek Ramaswamy

American entrepreneur and politician

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A biotech entrepreneur who ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on an anti-“woke,” deregulatory, pro-fossil-fuel platform, and later ran for governor of Ohio.

Vivek Ramaswamy sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, strongly growth-first on environment and strongly tech-optimist on technology.

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Where Vivek Ramaswamy sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Vivek Ramaswamy

Peter Thiel Venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder99%Javier Milei President of Argentina, 2023 to present97%Václav Klaus President of the Czech Republic, 2003 to 201396%Marc Andreessen Venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder96%Alice Weidel German politician and co-leader of the AfD95%Elon Musk Entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX and X93%Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Italy, 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 201193%Nigel Farage British MP and leader of Reform UK92%

People furthest from Vivek Ramaswamy

Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 19926%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 20067%Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19407%Greta Thunberg Swedish climate activist8%

Political views closest to Vivek Ramaswamy

PaleolibertarianismMixes free-market libertarianism with cultural traditionalism and localism.89%SovereigntismInsists that national institutions, not international bodies, should have the final say.88%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…85%Right-wing populismCasts politics as ordinary people against elites, mixing nationalism, tradition and…85%

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