I’m South Asian. I’ve already met a thousand Vivek Ramaswamys.

Don’t tell my grandmothers, but I love a little brown-on-brown violence. Naturally, it was with a sick frisson that I watched the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday and learned two things: first, that there have somehow already been three of these debates, and second, that I have been waiting my whole life to hear Nikki Haley call Vivek Ramaswamy “scum.” Haley vs. Ramaswamy is the kind of fight where you, as the witness, are too busy looking for an emergency exit to care about who wins, but it does highlight their different political strategies. Instead, he has tried to appeal to evangelical voters by explaining that, as a person of faith, he lives by “Judeo-Christian values,” more than many other “self-proclaimed Christian politicians.” If you, like me, are a South Asian person, you’ve already met Ramaswamy a thousand times: He talked about how Asians are negatively affected by affirmative action, he wore suits to temple lunch, he registered as a Republican the literal day he could. Build both walls.” Yes, Ramaswamy supports not just a border wall with Mexico but one with Canada, a country that I literally forget about even though I’m from there. Hearing from a white Republican candidate that “reverse racism is racism” doesn’t even move my needle anymore.