Sean Strickland clapped back at Donald Trump aide Vivek Ramaswamy after the outspoken conservative from Ohio commented on America’s alleged tendency to embrace mediocrity over excellence.
Ramaswamy, who founded the pharmaceutical company Roivant Services in 2014 and has a reported net worth of a billion dollars, recently offered his take on why tech companies are more inclined to hire foreign-born engineers over Americans.
According to Ramaswamy, the American culture has “venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.”
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” he wrote.