'Going down in flames': Conservative op-ed blisters MAGA's newest 'unlikable weasel'

An op-ed for the longtime conservative publication National Review launched a blistering attack on Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, for acting like a candidate certain he is “going down in flames.”Jeffrey Blehar, a National Review staff writer, made the case in a column published Wednesday, less than two weeks before Election Day.Blehar pointed to an ad Ramaswamy’s campaign released this week featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton. Ramaswamy trails Acton by three to five points in the polls.The conservative writer noted that he had avoided covering “the Democratic wave threatening to hit Ohio” in part because his “gag reflex kicks in at the thought of having to write about Vivek Ramaswamy.”He also revived his review of a December 2023 Republican presidential debate, in which he wrote that Ramaswamy's confidence in his debate claims “marks him out as either deeply weird or as...