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Tulsi Gabbard, former U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021, is best understood as a liberal John F. Kennedy Democrat.
Gabbard was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. In October 2022, she announced that she had left the Democratic Party to become an independent.
The “liberal” John F. Kennedy wing of the Democrat Party has shrunk in the postmodern period to insignificance. Kennedy was a liberal in the manner of John Locke, the patron saint of the founders, and Adam Smith, author of “The Wealth of Nations.”
The newest edition of the Democrat Party, as everyone knows, is solidly neo-progressive, best represented by President Joe Biden, his Vice President and soon to be Democrat nominee for president and her Vice presidential choice, the ebullient Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson regards the Biden administration as the most radical – read: neo-progressive -- in modern history. In a recent column that likely will never be seen in Connecticut, Hanson wrote, “No one voted for the Biden-Harris ticket to borrow trillions sparking hyperinflation, to wage war on fossil fuels, to go woke, to welcome in 10 million illegal aliens, to abandon $50 billion in weapons to the terrorist Taliban, and to find America facing existential wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and soon perhaps over Taiwan.”
The Harris administration, assuming Harris is able to defeat former President Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 election, will carry the country further left once her administration is free of the burden of head faking to the right for the purpose of sopping up “moderate” – read: non-neo-progressive – votes.
The following line has become a staple of Harris-Walz campaign oratory: “We have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible actually happen.” Karl Marx offered a similar sentiment in his Theses On Feuerbach: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” The present can only be changed by means of a radical alteration of the past.
Biden himself ran as a moderate in 2020. Once in office, he veered far to the left, disappointing, but not alienating, members of the media who were condemned to cover his carefully hidden basement campaign. They did a bang-up job of it and may be forced to repeat their performance during the Harris-Walz campaign.
Harris has not submitted to overly friendly media scrutiny since she had been drafted by the twinkling stars of the Democrat Party to take the presidential reins from an infirm Biden.
Reporters, it turns out, crave more than one 35 second media availability on an airport tarmac. Harris’ refusal to meet the press is now raising hackles at CNN, a news producer that cannot be accused of subservience to Trump-Vance. Feeding the news beast with other than campaign pabulum is an arduous 24-7 job.
Some commentators have pointed out that in the Harris-Walz opus there is not a single policy prescription addressing a leeching southern border; the rise of anti-Semitism in Ivy League college campuses; preventative policies that will not leave small businesses at the mercy of anarchists and anti-police rioters; a wholesale abandonment of the quaint notion that the conviction and sentencing of lawbreakers – not merely the arrest and imminent release of rioters who ransack stores -- is a deterrent to crime; a future policy course correction for the thoughtless and destructive withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan; the unaccountable refusal of the Biden administration to supply Ukraine, under siege and in a forced Biden administration defensive posture with Putin’s murderous marauders, with jet fighters Zelenskyy and Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal requested two years ago; and, to cut the list of grievances short, any corrective measure that will reduce a cumulative inflation rate of 80% as of January 2023. Try spending cuts would be the recommendation of objective economists.
Lest we leave Gabbard to the untender mercies of a future president Harris administration, we all should remember Gabbard’s confrontation with a hapless Harris during the 2020 Democrat presidential primary. Gabbard is a United States Army Reserve officer and political commentator who was the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. She was the first Samoan-American to become a voting member of Congress. Unlike prospective Democrat Vice President Walz, Gabbard served with honor in theaters of war, including stints in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Here is Gabbard discussing the harm that has befallen her when her name appeared – no one knows exactly how or why – on a “no-fly list.”
Was Gabbard’s name placed on the no-fly list because she had the audacity to confront Harris in a Democrat primary concerning her questionable record as a prosecutor, a confrontation that may have caused Harris to quit the primary prematurely?
“This is another example of the Biden-Harris Administration's abuse of power,” one commenter said. “Gabbard has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a member of the National Guard. But, because she is a critic of their administration, they punish her by putting her on the terrorist watch list. This Administration is a threat to the rule of law.”
A recent Judiciary report indicates that “between fiscal years 2021 and 2023… the Biden-Harris Administration has released into American communities at least 99 illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list… from 36 different countries.”
Well, the Biden-Harris administration certainly knows how to threaten its political opponents. Perhaps it should try treating Iran with the same measure of assertiveness it has deployed against Gabbard.
