Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during the Republican primary presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis., on August 23, 2023.(Al Drago / Getty)
This Ramaswamy fellow in debateIs like that kid in school who classmates hate.No matter what the teacher’s question is,This kid insists on showing he’s a whiz.His hand shoots up. And you can feel his plea:“Oh, please, just call on me, Teach, call on me.”
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”