Tulsi Gabbard’s recent public comments are so friendly to Russia you wonder if she’s on Putin’s payroll (I can’t prove she is).
Just two years after running for the Democratic presidential nomination, the former Hawaii congresswoman is quitting the Democratic Party. This will surprise no one, least of all Democrats, who knew long before she began appearing on Fox that she wasn’t one of theirs.
Recently, she’s been campaigning for Kari Lake and Blake Masters in Arizona, two of the most rabid election deniers on 2022 ballots. She’s also been hobnobbing with alt-right figures like Joe Rogan and Jack Posobiec (see, e.g., tweet here).
Her exit wasn’t graceful. She called Democrats “an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness” and unleashed a fact-free tirade that went like this:
“The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality. They demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans. The Democrats of today believe in open borders and weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents.”
I won’t even bother replying to that; it’s too delusional. What is worth talking about is the reception she’s getting from thoughtful conservatives who know a phony when they see and hear one. One of them said, “Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t really stand for anything,” adding, “I struggle to find any coherence in Gabbard’s political philosophy or strategy” (see story here). Me, too.
The best explanation of Gabbard he can think of is that she’s an opportunist starved for attention. That’s what I think, too. (See? I do have some things in common with conservatives, even though I’m not one.) Having no future in the Democratic Party, she’s trying her luck with the MAGA crowd, who’ll vote for anybody who blows the right dog whistles. All I can say is, they deserve her, and she deserves them.
Image below: She left because she never was a Democrat in the first place, and that was hardly a secret.
