Courting Slur-Users Isn’t A Winning Strategy When They Have Slurs For You

Aspiring politician Vivek Ramaswamy broke his lifelong vegetarianism Tuesday night, eating a fat one in the Ohio gubernatorial race where he ran as a Republican against Democratic candidate Amy Acton. It's certainly a vexed time to try and court a right-wing audience as a Hindu and Indian-American candidate. Let's wind back the clock and see how that strategy worked out for him over the past few y