LINCOLN BROWN: Vivek Ramaswamy Traces the Roots of ESG—It’s Been Going on a Lot Longer Than We Knew. “Ramaswamy said that the problems of ESG are not state or even national economic ones. They make up a transnational, trans-partisan battle for the heart and soul of democracy itself. It is not Democrats versus Republicans, Left versus Right, black versus white, or gay versus straight. Rather, the real issue at stake is democratic-republican self-governance versus monarchy.”