The next president needs to eliminate the federal government’s administrative state, entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Monday at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
“We don’t want to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state,” Ramaswamy said. “We want to dismantle that nanny state altogether.”
The result, he said, would be “a modern revival of 1776.”
Ramaswamy’s remarks kicked off Heritage’s Policy Fest on the first day of the RNC, which will run Monday through Thursday, when Donald Trump is scheduled to accept the party’s nomination for president a third time just days after an attempt on his life.
“Our enemy is not the Democrats,” Ramaswamy said. “Our enemy is an ideology. And our task ahead is, how do we defeat that…