At a recent rally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy stood on an Ohio gubernatorial platform that includes reopening mental institutions.

Ramaswamy has said as much before, arguing as he campaigned for president in 2023 that the “No. 1 psychiatric institution today” is jail. He echoes the same sentiment now, that “we are going to bring back the psychiatric institutions that were wrongfully shuttered.” 

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