Without referring to the attack that he received for his Halloween photos or Second Lady Usha Vance received for being a Hindu, GOP leader and Ohio Governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu, posted a strong three-word response: ‘End identity politics’. The Indian-origin Republican leader was long rejected from the Christian MAGA core after he pushed for foreign talent in America and criticized American education and culture. Ramaswamy is routinely asked to go back to India whenever he posts anything, and there was no exception this time also when he posted his Halloween greetings with his two children. But the environment was already vitiated enough after JD Vance said he would like to see his wife Usha Vance convert to Christianity. Though Vance defended his statement and clarified that it was only normal for a true Christian to see their loved ones embracing their faith, the Christianity versus Hinduism debate only spread its fangs, swallowing Ramaswamy too in the debate.“Look at the abuse Vivek is getting for posting an innocuous photo with his boys. This is the sh*tshow that Heritage and Tucker have brought upon us. If this continues, I would not be surprised to see mass desertions of blacks, Latinos and other minorities from the GOP. Unreal,” Indian-origin Christian MAGA commentator Dinesh D’Souza wrote. “You know who else has Brown Indian American kids? @JDVance These people want to have a struggle session with JD to make him just as hateful as they are. They will never vote for him in 2028 because he has a brown wife. Those aren’t my words. It’s their words. Hopefully he speaks out soon,” Far-right activist Laura Loomer posted.
‘End identity politics’
Without addressing the controversies, Ramaswamy wrote: ‘End identity politics’ for which he received a massive backlash as he was accused of starting it in the first place last Christmas when he criticized Americans, social media users said. “We tried. But last Christmas an Indian man said that the natives just don’t work as hard as immigrants. So now we have to compare the outcomes for each group to see if he was right,” one wrote.
