Days after a relatively subdued performance at the second GOP presidential debate, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy pitched to California Republicans about the dangers of cronyistic “woke capital” from leftist corporations at their autumn convention on Sept. 30. “I’ll take you back to the 2008 financial crisis,” 2024 presidential candidate Mr. Ramaswamy said. He described how the pre-woke “old Left” responded to bank bailouts that President George W. Bush signed into law: “Occupy Wall Street showed up to say … we want to redistribute money from those wealthy corporate fat cats and give it to poor people to help poor people.” But since then, he argued that the rise of wokeness and identity politics has blunted that frontal assault on the system....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/after-subdued-debate-performance-ramaswamy-assails-woke-capital-in-californias-corporate-sphere-5501564