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Vivek Ramaswamy

US politicians

Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Position estimated from: 2024 campaign, DOGE and 2026 Ohio governor campaign: anti-ESG, deregulation, America First foreign policy, civic nationalism.

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Political compass placement

Map dimensionScore (0–100)PositionReading
Economic
Collective / planned ↔ Market
85toward market
Social
Progressive ↔ Traditional
74toward traditional
Authority
Libertarian ↔ Authoritarian
37near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
81toward nationalist
Foreign policy
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
30toward non-intervention
All nine underlying dimensions
DimensionScoreReading
Economic ownership
Collective ownership ↔ Private ownership
90strongly toward private ownership
Civil liberties
Civil liberty ↔ State restrictions
39near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
81toward nationalist
Social and cultural values
Progressive ↔ Traditionalist
81toward traditionalist
Political governance
Democratic ↔ Autocratic
35toward democratic
Equality and hierarchy
Egalitarian ↔ Hierarchical
72toward hierarchical
Economic management
Free market ↔ State planning
23toward free market
Military intervention
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
30toward non-intervention
Religion and government
Secular state ↔ Religious authority
59near the center

These positions are estimates on the Atlas’s nine-dimension scale, produced by running the available evidence through the same questions and scoring used for test-takers. They are interpretations for comparison, not objective measurements. How scores are made.

Key positions

StatementPositionBasis
Hate speech should be a criminal offense.Strongly disagreesfrom their record
The means of production should ultimately be owned collectively.Strongly disagreesestimated
Central economic planning is preferable to decentralized market decisions.Strongly disagreesestimated
Opposition parties should be free to compete in elections.Strongly agreesestimated
A national religious authority should have the power to veto legislation.Strongly disagreesestimated
Transgender women should be able to compete in women’s sports.Strongly disagreesfrom their record
Hiring and university admissions should consider race to make up for past discrimination.Strongly disagreesfrom their record
National borders should become less important over time.Strongly disagreesestimated
Military power should be used proactively when serious external threats are emerging.Strongly disagreesestimated
The profit motive is a legitimate basis for organizing production.Strongly agreesestimated

Closest ideologies

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Sources

Profile last reviewed October 11, 2026.