On Tuesday night, Tulsi Gabbard, a former lawmaker, accused “fanatical ideologues” in the Democratic Party of leading the party in an extreme path and away from the core preservation of liberties. She also called party insiders “vindictive” and vowed to silence anybody who disagreed.
The 41-year-old Gabbard campaigned for office in 2020 as a Democrat but left politics in 2021.
She announced her decision to leave the Democratic Party on Tuesday morning and then criticized the party’s “cowardly wokeness” and “stoking anti-white bigotry” in a series of tweets.
She came on Fox News a few hours later and informed Tucker Carlson that she was no longer able to support the Democrats.
She told Carlson, “I cannot be a member of a party that deliberately attacks our freedom.”
Gabbard said that she had “always been an independent-minded person” and that the Constitution was her first allegiance.
She expressed her shock at how the party to which she belonged actively sought to “undermine our liberties” and would not put up with disagreement.
The party responded by doing “all they can to silence you, to actively destroy anyone who dares to even question their agenda,” according to Gabbard, who is well known for opposing the party on Syria and disagreeing with their support for the rebels, even traveling to Damascus to meet the dictator Bashar al-Assad.
‘You know what, let’s agree to differ,’ the Democratic leadership should have responded, according to the former congressman for Hawaii’s 2nd district.
It speaks to the whole climate of dread, she said, that individuals are reluctant to tell the truth.
“We have too many war mongers in Washington, rather than standing up for peace, prosperity, and the freedom of the American people.”
Asserting that they were “actively dragging us to the verge of a nuclear apocalypse,” she told Carlson that she strongly disagreed with the Biden administration’s position on Russia.
When asked how other Democrats in Congress had reacted to her decision to leave the party, Gabbard responded there had been none, with the exception of one who sent her a text message with three thumbs up.
She refused to reveal the message’s sender.
United States Army Reserve officer Gabbard had before charged the party of “demonizing the police,” “supporting criminals,” “believing in free borders,” and “driving us even closer to nuclear war.”
With only one month left before the key midterm elections, she also encouraged others who shared her viewpoint to leave.
In a video she released, she criticizes the party, claiming that its members “actively try to destroy our God-given liberties.”
In the first episode of her brand-new podcast, The Tulsi Gabbard Show, Gabbard made the news.
It is unclear whether she will switch parties or stick with her current one.
After announcing her candidacy for president in 2020 and announcing her resignation from government in 2021, Gabbard began to remark on politics. She routinely criticizes the Biden administration and Democrats.
She stated in a tweet that was posted alongside her video, “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party. It is now completely controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-
I support an administration that works for, by, and with the people. Sadly, the Democratic Party of today does not.
Instead, it symbolizes a government run by, for, and for the wealthy elite.
“I’m asking my fellow reasonable, independent-minded Democrats to leave the Democratic Party with me.”
“I encourage you to join me if you can no longer tolerate the way these so-called awakened Democratic Party ideologues are driving our nation.”
In a tweet, journalist Meghan McCain of DailyMail.com praised Gabbard and wrote: “There are so few independents and free thinkers left in this world, and you are one of them.” We stand by your side. Moving on, upward!
After being elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21 and serving in the field medical unit of the Hawaii National Guard, Gabbard ran for president in 2020 as a Democrat.
She traveled to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and served in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police battalion commander.
Gabbard, who used to be linked with Bernie Sanders, has modified her views, and this year appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
In February, she drew a standing ovation for her speech condemning the ‘power elite’ and ‘their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state.’
In an ideal world, she told the audience, “our leaders would take (former Director of National Intelligence) James Clapper before a court to account for his lying to Congress about how the government is gathering information.”
She started to say, “And they would support the Durham inquiry and Clinton corruption in 2016,” but before she could continue, there was a roar of applause.
She targeted lawmakers from both parties in Congress, saying that while they “talk a good game about civil liberties, when it comes time to cast that vote on things like getting rid of secret FISA courts and protecting our fourth amendment rights to privacy, they vote on the side of the power elite and against liberty.”
Hillary Clinton famously claimed in 2019 that Gabbard was being “groomed” by the Russians, but she avoided mentioning her by name.
Three years prior, Gabbard had resigned from her position as a DNC staff member in order to publicly back Sanders, who was running against Clinton.
She expressed her belief that the DNC was rigging the primary in favor of the more mainstream Clinton in an email to then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz that was made public by the Wikileaks hack.
She and Republican Senator Mitt Romney got into a fight in April 2022 over her claims that the United States was funding biolabs in Ukraine. Romney accused her of telling “treasonous lies.”
Romney was accused by her in a cease-and-desist letter of making “false and defamatory statements.”
In a tweet, Gabbard asserted that Ukraine has “25 to 30 U.S.-funded bio labs.”
She claimed in the video that “according to the US government, these bio labs are engaged in research on dangerous pathogens.”
‘These viruses know no boundaries, if they are accidently or purposefully penetrated or compromised, they will soon spread all across Europe, the United States and the rest of the globe bringing immense agony and death.’
Gabbard stated ‘these laboratories need to be shut down immediately and the germs that they possess need to be eliminated.’