Vivek Ramaswamy, now a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, drew a sharp red line on racism inside the right by declaring that anyone who calls Usha Vance, the Indian‑American second lady of the United States, a “**et” has “no place in the future of the conservative movement.” Framing the insult as part of a broader trend of ethnic hatred from fringe “online right” circles, he argued that normalizing slurs against any group—whether whites, blacks, Hispanics, Jews or Indians—betrays core American ideals and must be explicitly rejected by conservative leaders. His remark came in the same AmericaFest speech where he condemned both left‑wing identity politics and blood‑and‑soil nationalism on the right, urging young conservatives to define their movement by civic principles, merit and character rather than race or lineage.