Speaking to Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) News in a recent interview to help raise awareness about her new book, For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind, former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard explained what she sees as being wrong with the Democrat Party and the current state of the American political system.
As background, Gabbard was once a liberty-minded Democrat, even running under that banner in the 2020 primary and scoring some major blows against her more progressive and anti-liberty colleagues, though she ended up dropping out of the primary. She then ditched the Democrats in 2022, calling them an “elitist cabal of warmongers.” A veteran, she was upset with the interventionist, war-enthusiastic stance of the Swamp.
Now, she’s written a book about ditching the Democrats and spoke about the political situation generally to CBN News. Doing so, she explained how free thinkers are not welcome in DC, saying, “This has been my experience throughout my time involved in national politics especially. Independent-minded people, common sense-minded people, independent free thinkers, are not welcome in Washington.”
Further, CBN News reports, she spoke about the abuse of power from the left right now, saying, “That abuse of power that we’re seeing coming from the Democratic Democrat elite, right now, and increasingly so in increasingly brazen ways, is a direct threat to our fundamental freedoms, our democracy and the rule of law.” She added that “Donald Trump and what they’re doing to him is the most public abuse of the Department of Justice” is an example of such an abuse of power.
Later, speaking about the Establishment’s predilection for going to war, whatever the reason or reasonableness of doing so, Gabbard told CBN News, “Their emotional knee-jerk reaction is, ‘We’ve just got to go drop some bombs, or we’ve got to go punish this bad guy, or we’ve got to go and topple this dictator of this country.'”
She also noted that doing so is “So short-sighted, and as we’ve seen over the last 20-plus years, so often over and over end up, putting us in a position where it has undermined our own national security interests and come at the cost of countless lives and American taxpayer dollars.”
She did, however, defend American aid to Israel. When asked if there is a difference between that and aid to Ukraine, she said, “Yes, there is a very clear difference. There is a very real difference…Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine. There’s no question about it. There’s a lot of historical context that went into that but the bottom line is, we should have had a president who would have gone in very early and negotiated a peaceful end to that war as quickly as possible, save lives, save American taxpayer dollars.”
Further, she said, “When you look at what’s happening in the war between Israel and Hamas, and it is a war between Israel and Hamas, a radical Islamist terrorist group, this is just the latest front of this war that’s been waged for a very long time between these radical Islamist terrorist groups that have been waging it militarily and ideologically. This is in our best interests.”
And, commenting on the outsized power of Big Tech in the political process, she said, “It is not only the Democratic elite who are in power, the elected leaders, but it is their partners in Big Tech and companies like Google. It is their partners in the mainstream media…Their amassed powers and their collusion is all working towards one specific purpose. They want power.”
Then, speaking about her goals in 2024, Tulsi said, “For me to be in a position now where I can reach out to and connect with folks who may not have ever considered voting for a Republican or voting for Donald Trump before, there’s an opportunity here to remind people of our responsibility as citizens to put our country first.”
She also spoke about Democrats ditching God and trying to be Him, saying, “They themselves are removing these guardrails in our society that the truth then becomes whatever they deem it to be, putting themselves in that position of trying to be god.”
Watch her speak about that here:
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