Michael Hiltzik: Vivek Ramaswamy's idiotic play for airtime is working, God help us
You may have noticed that Vivek Ramaswamy is the political flavor of the moment, thanks to his supercaffeinated performance at the Aug. 23 GOP political debate.
By constantly interrupting his fellow would-be presidential aspirants with a firehose of cocksure imbecilities, Ramaswamy captured the attention of the political chattering classes.
Since the debate, he has landed interviews on NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN and Fox News, where he generally has doubled down on his spectacularly ignorant views about 9/11, Jan. 6, global warming and Israel policy.
But there's a more fascinating aspect to Ramaswamy's sudden apotheosis in the political firmament. In his quest to nail down the position of leading ignoramus in the still nascent presidential race, he has completely pushed aside the previous holder of that chair, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
You remember RFK Jr., don't you? He's the scion of a leading liberal Democratic family who took on the coloration of an anti-science Republican to challenge, putatively, President Biden for the Democratic nomination for 2024.
Kennedy and Ramaswamy share some rhetorical techniques. One is to
