The Ramaswamy Tsunami

Like most faux-populists these days, he has stellar common-man credentials: a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a J.D. from Yale Law, hedge-fund investment partner and biotech bro, who was worth $15 million before graduating from law school. (As of April, Forbes claims he’s worth $630 million.)

In one of his books, he supported inheritance tax rates as high as 59 percent, which rural Iowans know less fondly as “the death tax.”

Though he’s now posing as God’s gift to Republicans, he’s registered as “unaffiliated” in Ohio, where he lives, and has never even voted for a Republican nationally until backing Trump in 2020.

Campaign finance records show him giving money to Democrats instead, including a state senate candidate in Massachusetts with long-time Obama-administration ties who’d been endorsed by conservative darling, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

While chief executive of Roivant Sciences and Axovant Sciences, he signed a joint 2017 letter that was created by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council calling for “driving diversity and inclusion” in the industry.