[Source.](https://pjmedia.com/columns/john-stossel/2023/05/17/president-ramaswamy-n1696013) > Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is obviously a long shot presidential candidate, but he’s refreshing. Unlike most politicians, he speaks clearly and seems smart. > He probably is smart. He went to Harvard and Yale and then founded a biotech firm that creates drugs that treat prostate cancer, endometriosis, fibroids and more. > That made me ask him, since he clearly helped people as a medical entrepreneur, why go into politics, when most politicians are useless or destructive? > “I am in this race to speak truth,” Ramaswamy says in my new video. “To revive our missing national identity.” Most Americans, he says, don’t know “We’re a nation built on the rule of law, free speech and open debate, that we embrace meritocracy over grievance, that we embrace the unapologetic pursuit of excellence.” > In other words, Ramaswamy is running as the “anti-woke” candidate. “Wokeness,” he says, “is a cultural cancer.” Ramaswamy is running for a cabinet position in either Trump's or DeSantis' administrations.