Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose impeachment trial kicked off last week, has repeatedly tied his fate to that of another famously embattled figure in Republican politics: former President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Paxton involved himself in the sprawling scheme to overturn its results by petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump. During twice-indicted Paxton’s most recent reelection campaign, in 2022, Trum
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images“Faith, patriotism, belief in God, nation… those have disappeared. That leaves a moral vacuum in its wake.” This kind of rhetoric has long been a fixture of Republican politics, so it's no surprise that this was a sentiment expressed by a 2024 GOP presidential candidate.What is surprising, however, is that the candidate in question, Vivek Ramaswamy, is a millennial Hindu American candidate whose parents, like my own, immigrated to th