DES MOINES, Iowa – Vivek Ramaswamy, the controversial republican candidate for the extreme right-wing cult of the republican party, has officially dropped out of the 2024 race for president and endorsed the cult’s current leader, former president Donald J. Trump.

Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur and amateur politician who made splashes early in the Republican party’s quest to find a candidate for president by leaning hard into the far-right’s fetish for conspiracy theories, racist ideologies, and patriarchal daddy issues.

“People fell in love with Donald Trump because he had extreme views and took extreme action in comparison to his traditional political counterparts, including those in his own party,” said Howard Mace, a political analyst at OAN. “Vivek tried to mimic those qualities but maybe leaned a little too far. People liked him but throughout debates he came across as an even more extreme version of Trump. I suppose not enough people liked the flavor of his Kool-Aid. It seems the majority of republican voters would rather vote for the guy who’s facing nearly 100 felony charges and is accused of attempting to overthrow the government than some non-white newcomer.”

Following the results of the Iowa caucus, where he finished a distant fourth after Trump, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, Ramaswamy called former President Trump to congratulate him on his victory and offered his unwavering support.

“There is no path for me to be the next president, absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country,” said Ramaswamy in a speech to his followers. “As I’ve said since the beginning, there are two America First candidates in this race, and earlier tonight I called Donald Trump to tell him that I congratulate him on his victory. And now, going forward, he will have my full endorsement for the presidency, and I think we’re going to do the right thing for this country.”

In Trump’s victory speech, the former president congratulated Ramaswamy for his effort but was quick to remind everyone there can only be one cult leader and he isn’t prepared to step aside for anyone. Falling in line, Ramaswamy said he would likely go to New Hampshire next to stand alongside Trump in his campaign to reclaim the White House and suggested fellow candidates DeSantis and Haley follow his lead and get out of wannabe dictator‘s way.

Although he’s no longer in the running, Ramaswamy’s time on the campaign trail did give us a good look inside the mind of a person some political experts believe was only there to push the limits of what the right-wing voters were willing to endorse, should their candidate get elected. Some of Ramaswamy’s most notable promises he made on the campaign trail include:

  • making concessions to appease international aggressor Russia, including severing financial aid to Ukraine, our regional partner through the National Guard’s State Partnership Program since 1993;
  • abandoning all efforts to curb climate change;
  • vowed to rescind President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 which established non-discriminatory employment practices and equal opportunity;
  • pledged to fire 75% of federal employees and abolish the Department of Education, FBI, ATF, IRS, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service;
  • proposed raising to the voting age to 25, disenfranchising nearly 10% of the population who voted in the 2020 election;
  • pledged to use the U.S. Military to “annihilate the Mexican drug cartels”;

“I think Vivek’s biggest blunder was that he underestimated how gullible the extreme right is,” said Mace. “I mean, Trump was able to convince these people that scientists, people who dedicate their lives to facts, were just a bunch of quacks during the pandemic. He continues to convince them that the election was stolen despite a complete lack of evidence to support the claim. On the contrary, there’s mountains of evidence to support the multiple felonies he’s been charged with but has convinced his followers that it’s all nothing but a witch hunt. He successfully spun the idea that he’s basically the reincarnation of the lord and savior himself, Jesus Christ. There was no way Vivek, or any other candidate, was going to swing the evangelical vote.”

If the results of the Iowa caucus tell us anything, it’s that Trump still maintains a commanding lead over the far-right cult with 51% of the votes and, pending any negative outcomes from his multiple legal battles or people finally realizing the man is unfit to run his golf course, let alone the country, he will most likely be the republican nominee for president in this year’s election.

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