Fear Leads to Submission: COVID, Climate Change, and Authority with Dana Loesch

Truth with Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy

Business, News, Government

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode of The Vivek Show, host Vivek Ramaswamy is joined by radio host and political commentator Dana Loesch. They delve into Loesch's journey in the 2016 presidential cycle and her initial hesitation about Trump, as well as Ramaswamy's experience stepping down as a biotech CEO. The conversation covers faith, Marxism, GOP politics, and the challenges posed by ideologies like Critical Race Theory. They also discuss the consequences of society's increasing reliance on government authority and the blurring of political lines in modern America. -- Donate here: https://t.co/PE1rfuVBmb For more content follow me here: Twitter - @VivekGRamaswamy Instagram - @vivekgramaswamy Facebook - http://facebook.com/VivekGRamaswamy Truth Social - @VivekRamaswamy Rumble - @VivekRamaswamy -- Time-codes: 00:00:23 - Dana Loesch's experience supporting a governor in the 2016 presidential cycle 00:01:34 - Loesch reveals her journey from Perry to Cruz to Trump 00:04:46 - Vivek Ramaswamy's decision to step down as a biotech CEO 00:05:32 - Ramaswamy's choice not to run for US Senate 00:08:16 - Challenges of being the head of the GOP 00:09:56 - The few in Congress who don't care about special interests 00:11:33 - Inoculating oneself against the administrative state's influence 00:14:01 - Vivek's motivations for running and knowing when to walk away 00:16:57 - Dana Loesch's journey to non-denominational Christianity 00:18:18 - Loss of faith in God's impact on society 00:21:24 - Freedom, equality under God, and the threat of Marxism 00:25:39 - Science and reason becoming a "superstition" 00:26:06 - Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" and its relevance today 00:27:42 - Fear of the unknown leading to submission to authority 00:29:27 - The shift in the political landscape and blurred lines between right and left Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:01.0	Dana, welcome to the podcast. We spoke earlier. One of the things that I'm looking to
0:12.0	do is actually learn from everybody who comes in here from their experiences of
0:17.3	such as in your case watching other presidential cycles play out. I actually didn't stop you on the radio show earlier but you made a
0:26.0	comment that you had actually in 2016 supported a governor. I got to confess
0:31.7	that we were alive on radio I don't want to interrupt you,
0:34.0	but I didn't even know who you supported or what you had in mind,
0:36.7	but you did leave me a little curious.
0:39.1	And I thought we could talk about that in terms of,
0:41.5	you said you think about a governor as a president
0:43.7	junior he supported a governor last time around when Trump was running tell me
0:47.0	about that and then we'll pick up where we left off in our other conversation.
0:49.6	Yeah yeah well the vague congrats on the podcast.
0:52.9	Thank you so much for having me.
0:54.0	In 2016, it was, it was weird because there,
0:58.3	there were some really bad choices
1:00.6	and then some choices that could be amazing, but they were kind of wild cards and you had no idea because there wasn't
1:07.1	They like like with Trump he didn't have a voting record and I knew where he stood on
1:12.1	You know like things like, you know, certain business, taxes, and there were things I knew he would be good on, certain policies I knew he would be good on, but there was a lot that he just didn't have anything, you know, in the bank so to speak about it.
1:26.0	I had no way to measure where he stood on certain issues.
1:29.8	So I had moved to Texas in 2013
1:32.1	and at the time former Governor Rick Perry was running for
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