DETROIT, Michigan — Former 2024 GOP presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy told Breitbart News exclusively at the Turning Point Action People’s Convention in June that he sees a coming debate within the America First future of the GOP about the size, scope, and level of control of the government. Ramaswamy, who believes the old neocon vision of globalist Republicans is mostly a thing of the past and would be finished by a November victory from former President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News that he thinks this debate will be a healthy disagreement between differing worldviews. “First let’s just talk about the strand of the Republican Party in the historical neocon or neoconservative movement of yesterday,” Ramaswamy said.
“It favors an expansive surveillance state, it favors foreign intervention even in places that don’t directly affect U.S. interests in the name of ensuring global hegemony.
That’s an old vision—the Dick Cheney vision of the Republican Party. The new direction says the first and sole moral duty of any leader in this country is exclusively to our own citizens and you know what? We don’t want some sort of expansive surveillance state. We’re skeptical of that government.
We don’t want bureaucrats exercising undue power. The people we elect to run the government should actually run the government. So that’s the America First movement as distinct from the historical neocon movement of yesterday.
I think this actually broade.
