‘Out Of The Whole MAGA Ethos’: Political Strategist Slams Ramaswamy’s ‘Insane’ Take On American Culture

During his podcast Friday, Libertarian strategist Tim Miller criticized Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-head Vivek Ramaswamy for his “insane” stance on America’s culture as part of an online feud over H-1B visas.

Arguments over the use of H-1B visas, specifically within the tech industry, broke out earlier in the week as many Republicans online criticized Ramaswamy and DOGE co-head Elon Musk for defending them. On “The Bulwark,” Miller called out Ramaswamy for criticizing American culture and for saying it praises “mediocrity over excellence.” Ramaswamy, on X, listed ’90s sitcoms as examples to back up what he said.

Ramaswamy said that “a culture that venerates Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zach & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters,’ will not produce the best engineers.”

Within his lengthy post, Ramaswamy said that the reason tech companies often hire “foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans” isn’t due to an “innate American IQ deficit,” but rather the country’s culture.

“Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates,” Ramaswamy said.

Miller responded.

“Do you think that Donald Trump’s parents were preventing him from watching The Andy Griffith show or whatever was fucking on TV in 1932 when he went? No, OK? This is so out of the whole MAGA-ethos,” Miller said.