Hunter Biden, Donald Trump and Reviving the American Republic with Vivek Ramaswamy

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this week’s Free Expression podcast Gerry Baker, WSJ editor at large, talks with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy about double standards of justice in politics, the corruption of the federal government and his plans to overhaul the administrative state. He also discusses his ideas for a radical reform of the Federal Reserve and the elimination of the FBI, how he plans to facilitate a peace deal in Ukraine to prise apart the Russia-China alliance. and whether he would consider being a candidate for Vice President for Donald Trump - or anyone else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:08.7	Hello and welcome to Free Expression. I'm Jerry Baker from the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
0:13.5	I'm really delighted you're joining us this week. If you're not already a subscriber,
0:16.1	please sign up wherever you get your podcasts. This week, Viveake for president.
0:22.5	In 2016, the Republican Party embraced a political outsider, a successful businessman turned populist who promised to take on
0:27.3	the vested interests who ran Washington and said he would upend American politics. Now, Donald Trump,
0:33.3	of course, is back, running as the favorite for the third time and for a second term as president.
0:38.9	But Trump is now the face of the GOP in many ways.
0:41.6	Is the party ready to fall again for a complete outsider?
0:45.5	But my guess this week certainly hopes and think so.
0:48.7	Vivek Ramoswami is the child of Indian immigrants.
0:51.6	He went to Harvard and Yale and then went on to build a highly successful
0:55.2	biotech business along with some other ventures. But in the last few years, he's been waging
1:00.0	a high-profile media and financial campaign, and now a political one, against the progressive
1:05.8	orthodoxes of our age. He's presented himself as the scourge of what he calls woke capitalism and says
1:11.9	America is in the midst of an identity crisis, an age when faith, patriotism and hard work are in
1:16.9	decline, and secular religions like climate extremism and gender ideology are in the ascendant.
1:23.4	He says he's running not just a political campaign, but a cultural movement to restore the primacy of American values,
1:29.5	elevating excellence over identity, and merit and opportunity over victimhood and grievance culture.
1:35.8	He's promising a radical overhaul of government, too, pledging to reign back the administrative state to shut down some agencies and rein in others, like the Federal Reserve.
1:46.0	Abroad, he says he would adopt an aggressive posture against China, even being prepared to bar
1:51.2	U.S. companies from expanding there until its government abandons theft and other
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