From Breitbart: Vivek Ramaswamy dismissed the idea of “Heritage Americans” as illegitimate during remarks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, directly challenging a narrative he says is gaining traction among some segments of the “online right.”
“There’s a different vision of American identity that’s emergent in certain corridors of the online right,” Ramaswamy said during his speech on Day 2 of the conservative youth conference. “And it says that your identity as an American is based on your lineage. That how long you have been in the country, your lineage and your genetics tied to the blood and soil of the country, determines how American you are.”
He described the “Heritage American” concept as the belief that the most authentic Americans are those descended from families present during or before the Revolutionary era. While acknowledging that the idea is gaining popularity, he dismissed it as “about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up,” adding that “there is no American who is more American than somebody else.”
Ramaswamy, 40, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents who immigrated to the US from India. A Republican, he ran for president in the 2024 race, but then dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump.
Sharing a short clip from his speech, Ramaswamy wrote:
It’s a time for choosing in the conservative movement.
If you believe boys should compete with girls in girls’ sports, you have no place in this movement.
If you believe in racial quotas, you have no place in this movement.
If you believe in normalizing hate towards whites, blacks, Indians, or Jews, you have no place in this movement.
If you believe Hitler was cool, you have no place in this movement.
If you believe Stalin should be admired, you have no place in this movement.
If you call Usha Vance a “jeet,” you have no place in this movement.
And if you don’t have the guts to say these things without stuttering, then you have no place as a leader in this movement.
It’s a time for choosing in the conservative movement.
If you believe boys should compete with girls in girls’ sports, you have no place in this movement.
If you believe in racial quotas, you have no place in this movement.
If you believe in normalizing hate towards whites,… pic.twitter.com/hKWiQ1KvfV
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 20, 2025
WATCH his full speech in the video below:
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