He’s attempting quite the balancing act—and he just might pull it off.
—Ramaswamy is not a Christian convert, and he has not played down his non-Christian background. Instead, he hashis Hindu faith to the white evangelical base. So when he advocates for Christian values, he does so as an outsider.It’s a two-step, and a new and unproven tactic, but Ramaswamy appears to believe that by presenting his faith as just as conservative as theirs, white evangelicals won’t care about the specifics.
Ramaswamy, for his part, does have direct connections to Hindu nationalism. In 2022 he was a keynote speaker for an event organized by a group called HinduPACT, an initiative of a group called the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America. VHPA is in turn an arm of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which the CIA classifies as a “militant religious organization.” The VHP has called for Muslims to be banned from office in India; the VHPA has said it shares the VHP’s values.
shows his optimism. Despite Christian nationalism’s exclusion of Jews from its goals, Ramaswamy is trying to appeal to a less extreme version of the ideology that’s just expansive enough to tolerate Judaism. He seems to believe that if Christian nationalists can accept Jews into their project, they could embrace Hindus too. “The termitself is a relatively late element to enter American political discourse,” Chopra said. “It’s also because you have conservative people who are Jewish.
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