GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy did not back down Sunday when questioned about comments he made during a campaign stop in Iowa Friday, calling Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) part of the “modern KKK.”
“I stand by what I said to provoke an open and honest discussion in this country,” Ramaswamy said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
It is so weird watching national politics being conducted in terms more fitting to a playground argument. And not just in the US, we’re getting a lot of it in the UK too. And I’m assuming it is similar everywhere the fash and their fellow travellers have gained some kind of platform in national politics.
There were never “grown ups” in charge. But I miss them at least pretending to be serious. Or maybe it’s better that they’re so laughably bad, instead of cloaking equally dire arguments in more convincing rhetoric?