'We Do Not Have To Be Ancient Rome': Vivek Ramaswamy Promises US Can Still Be 'Nation In Our Ascent'

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Former GOP Presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy spoke about the 'decline' of the United States.

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00:00And you know what? If you're at home, and you disagree with everything I just said,

00:05our message to you is this. We will still defend to the death your right to say it.

00:11Because that is who we are as Americans. We are the country where we can disagree like

00:17hell and still get together at the dinner table at the end of it. That is the America

00:21I know. That is the America we miss. We do not have to be ancient Rome. We don't have

00:28to be this nation in decline. We can still be a nation in our ascent. A nation whose

00:35best days, not in some fake politician way, but in a true way, a nation whose best days

00:41are actually still ahead of us. Still on our way to that shining city on a hill. That country

00:48where no matter who you are, or where your parents came from, or what your skin color

00:53is, or how long your last name is, that you will still get ahead in this country with

01:01your own hard work, your own commitment, your own dedication, and that you know what? You

01:07are free to speak your mind at every step of the way. That is the American dream. That

01:13is what won us the American Revolution. That is what reunited us after the Civil War. That

01:20is what won us two World Wars and the Cold War. That is what still gives hope to the

01:25free world. And if we can revive that dream over group identity and victimhood and grievance,

01:32then nobody in the world, not a nation, not a corporation, not a virus, not China, is

01:38going to defeat us. That is what American exceptionalism is all about. And that is what

01:43we will revive this November when we send Donald J. Trump back to the White House. Thank

01:49you all. God bless you and your families. And may God bless our United States of America.

'We Do Not Have To Be Ancient Rome': Vivek Ramaswamy Promises US Can Still Be 'Nation In Our Ascent'

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