The Atlantic City-born Hirsh Vardhan Singh is not your run-of-the-mill 2024 GOP presidential candidate. Yes, he’s a populist and a traditional conservative, but also a staunch enemy of neoconservatism, making him a true America Firster.
“We do not want World War III,” Singh emphatically told Townhall. “We do not want to continue to fund the Ukrainian war. We do not want American sons and daughters to die in a foreign war that does nothing.”
He insisted Russia should join NATO but blamed Secretary of State Antony Blinken's personal grudge preventing it, favorably to the so-called “warhawk” policies of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and the Clinton administration’s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
“I don’t think that America should have a foreign policy on the behalf of family concerns or a historical family grind,” Singh reasserted, as he slammed Albright and Nuland as “anti-Russian hawks that have hijacked American foreign policies.”
Years prior, Presidents Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush wanted to provide aid to post-Soviet Russia. Even the Clinton administration’s Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, pushed for the Partnership for Peace, excluding no Eastern European country from the commitment. Russia had wide support at the time too, but Albright wanted none of that.
In 1999, she shelled Serbia for 78 days without UN authorization under the Kosovo Liberation Army, later classified as a terrorist organization. The attacks on non-military targets gave cover to President Vladimir Putin, laying waste to Chechnya a few months after.
Albright’s military campaign supported Kosovo’s secession, based on a vote by its Albanian population which laid the foundation for Putin to annex Crimea through a subsequent vote in 2014. Upon her death, Nuland took up her mantle. Her warhawk mentality wasn’t any different, adjoined by her husband, Robert Kagan, who co-founded the neoconservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a driving force behind the Iraq War.
Singh doesn’t believe the US will ever regain Russia’s trust, giving the advantage to China. However, he stressed his Hindu background would provide leverage on the national stage within the UN:
The majority of world conflicts or otherwise have been on the basis of religion and whereas Hinduism is the oldest religion. It really does not have a position against any other religion—it really is very open and allows for biases that are out there to kind of dispel.
He also pointed out the neocon-driven billions of taxpayer monies unloaded to foreign countries, including Egypt ($1.47B) and Israel ($3.31B). Singh noted NGOs actually benefit much from the funds rather than the nations themself.
Shifting to the election and eligible voters, he said, “We need just to educate people that have kind of been propagandized,” he continued. “Certain parts of our country are seeing the world in a very different way than others.” Nonetheless, Singh strongly disagreed with Vivek Ramaswamy’s move for a civics test.
“Our youth are essentially so far removed from base reality—if you look at things like Snapchat, TikTok—the type of messages that are being constantly reinforced on these platforms, even Twitter. … I would say, 3/4 of the population, between the ages of 20 and 39 [fall into] these echo chambers,” added Singh.
He believes Section 230 and its “agonistic” behavior is to blame, “shield[ing] Big Tech,” though he acknowledged influential NGOs like the ADL and SPLC targeting conservatives.
“These nonprofits … shouldn’t have tax-exempt status if they are going to be political organizations of this sort,” he asserted. “I think that this whole opportunity has been created where anything that the Left really wants to focus on becomes a tax haven.”
Singh also remarked on today’s two-tier justice system in America, comparing it to that of the Bolsheviks, the Communists and the Socialists.
In 2021, the Minnesota Criminal Justice System, the state where George Flyod died, leading to worldwide riots, reported that blacks represented nine times more criminal offenders and ten times more serious offenders than whites. Yet, the system was more favorable to blacks along “every stage including incarceration,” according to Fox News.
“One population group [is] be[ing] considered the enemy of the country,” he then added, “It’s actually racist to allow individuals just based upon their racial [or] ethnic background to be allowed out of jail after committing a crime—law and order need to be equal, not equitable.”
The presidential candidate did not shy away from the topic. Last week, South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema’s recent genocidal antiwhite chant, to the roar of 100,000, to Singh was “the same Communist elements expressed by the Democrat party.”
He then stressed that “racial tensions were not created by mistake” and were “by design.”
Jumping to academia, Singh aggressively hammered viewpoint discrimination, threatening to defund any guilty school.
“Our academic institutions have been infiltrated by the same Bolshevik mindsets of the Soviet Union–the Communist mindset–the Democrat-now mindset. … This fringe group of society has taken control of the whole,” he said, adding, “It’s an all-out assault against our traditional values.”
Singh's idea for change in the academia square is to phase out universities’ loans, forcing competition, lowering prices and improving the overall quality of education.
The “pureblood” Indian-American engineer hopes to be America’s uniting force that partisans have long neglected and that his message will become one of “redundancy on the Republican side.”