Zeeshan Aleem: Tulsi Gabbard’s political truth was always hiding in plain sight.
This combination of positions put Gabbard in an odd position. She was too hawkish for the Sanders wing of the party, too dovish for the belligerent wing of the Democratic Party, and too comfortable with repressive authoritarians for either of them.
Gabbard's foreign policy worldview has been a source of constant friction with the left because foreign policy is a top tier issue for her. She served two combat tours in the Middle East, she’s a current Army Reserve officer, and her focus on war has consistently been at the center of her political project as an elected official and a commentator. She also cites it as the biggest reason she has left the Democratic Party and effectively joined the right-wing populist media scene.
If opposition to arming Ukraine is one’s animating motive, Gabbard is correct that there’s no home for her in the Democratic Party at the moment. By contrast, in the GOP, the Trump wing of the party has criticized the flow of weapons to Ukraine according to a right-wing nationalist logic: They hardly take objection to Putin accumulating more power on the world stage, and they’d rather focus coldly on U.S. interests and invest in security at home.
In the last couple of years, though, Gabbard’s clashes with the left have expanded beyond foreign policy. Gabbard has
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