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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Nation of Victims with Vivek Ramaswamy

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Vivek Ramaswamy, biotech entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author, joins Lisa to talk about his new book, Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.

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If you've noticed that everyone is a victim nowadays, everyone is

0:05.6

aggrieved. It doesn't matter if it's, you know, LGBTQ plus

0:09.9

GX, whatever it is. It doesn't matter if it's a sexism thing or

0:14.0

racism thing. Everyone's aggrieved. Everyone feels insulted.

0:18.7

Everyone, you know, wants to claim some sort of special status

0:22.4

in today's society. So how did that all begin? Why did that all begin?

0:29.1

How did we become this nation of victims? We're going to ask the

0:33.6

guy who wrote the book on it. The vague Rama Swami, he's out

0:38.1

with a new book September 13th. You guys know him. You've seen

0:40.8

him on Fox. I've interviewed him as well. Extremely smart, very

0:43.5

interesting, very insightful. He wrote this new book, Nation of

0:46.7

victims, identity politics, the death of merit, and the path

0:50.3

back to excellence. Since we last spoke to him, his book woke

0:54.4

and crushed it. He became a New York Times bestseller. He also

0:57.3

started an asset management fund called STRIVE, which really serves as

1:01.4

sort of this anti woke asset management fund. And that's crushing it

1:06.4

as well. He's such a smart, successful guy. He's a first generation

1:09.4

American entrepreneur investor. Before he founded STRIVE, he

1:13.7

founded, you know, multi-billion dollar enterprises, including

1:17.4

Roevent Sciences, which he led a CEO. He graduated sumo cum laude

1:22.5

from Harvard. He received his law degree from Yale by working as a

1:25.7

hedge fund partner. He's not an idiot. He's a very, and he's not

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