Cable news ratings; Curt Schillings compares Ukraine to Fascist Italy; Hannity challenges GOP candidate on Trump

Fox News host Sean Hannity asked a 2024 Republican candidate for president a question that has stumped other contenders this week: what makes you different from former President Donald Trump?
Vivek Ramaswamy, a millionaire biotech entrepreneur who has established himself as a prominent critic of “woke culture” in regular Fox News appearances, appeared on Hannity Thursday night to discuss his longshot bid for the presidency.
"What are the policy differences you have between yourself and Donald Trump?” Hannity asked his guest.
Other candidates have had trouble with that question, no doubt out of fear of angering Trump’s base or even the president himself, who has shown little hesitancy to blast the competition on his social media platform.
“First of all, Donald Trump is a friend,” Ramaswamy said. “I am not running against him. I’m running on a vision for our nation.”
Hannity jumped in: “Wait, wait. But you’re not running for him. You’re running against him. Let’s be honest.”
As the live Hannity crowd laughed, Ramaswamy gave the question a second try and painted his campaign as the "next level" after Trump's presidency.
Not exactly a policy difference, but an answer to Hannity's question -- a crucial one leading up to the 2024 election.

Curt Schilling, the famed pitcher turned conspiracy theorist, called Ukraine a “bad” place with “bad” people while on Fox News, comparing the bloody Russian invasion of the country to “if Germany invaded Italy in 1939.”
Earlier this month marked one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Schilling, who recently joined Fox Corporation-owned sports and politics website Outkick, sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday night to discuss U.S. support throughout the conflict.
Schilling took the opportunity to embark on a bizarre rant comparing the democratically-ruled sovereign nation to Fascist Italy under dictator Benito Mussolini.
“I am offended that these people on the left are talking to us as if we are as stupid as we know they are,” Schilling said.
“Let’s go quickly back in time. If Germany had invaded Italy in 1939, what would the world have done? Because that’s exactly kind of what’s happened here in a modern sense.”
He went on to describe the conflict as "one really bad person" invading another "really bad person’s country."
To clarify, he said this about a brutal invasion, which Putin has farcically claimed was an effort to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, that has destroyed cities, and killed tens of thousands of civilians and at least 250,000 soldiers.