Tuesday, March 26

Tulsi Gabbard quits Democrat Party, blasts ‘wokeness’


Former Democratic House member and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she was leaving the party Tuesday — blasting it as an “an elitist cabal” driven by “cowardly wokeness.”

“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Gabbard, 41, said in a searing video posted on Twitter.

Gabbard, who gave up her House seat representing Hawaii to run for president in 2020, condemned the progressive party for being “hostile to people of faith and spirituality” while demonizing the police and protecting criminals “at the expense of law-abiding Americans.”

She then accused party leaders of weaponizing national security “to go after their political opponents, and above all, who are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”

Tulsi Gabbard accused Democrats of hurting “law​-abiding Americans.”
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Gabbard, who endorsed Joe Biden’s candidacy after dropping out of the presidential race, said she believes in a government “that’s of the people, by the people and for the people.”

“Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead it stands for a government that is of, by, and for the powerful elite,” she said.

Gabbard also addressed other disillusioned “common-sense” Democrats — calling on them to follow her lead.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she is leaving the party Tuesday
She accused party leaders of weaponizing national security “to go after their political opponents, and above all, who are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”
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Democratic US presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks with fellow Democratic US presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard in Columbia, South Carolina, US January 20, 2020.
Tulsi Gabbard did not mention President Biden in her blistering video.
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US.  Sen.  Bernie Sanders, left, I-Vt., US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, center, D-Hawaii, and Sen.  Elizabeth Warren, right, D--Mass., speak at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day services at Zion Baptist Church, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, in Columbia, SC
Tulsi Gabbard ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential primaries.
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“I’m calling on my fellow common sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party,” she said.

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“If you can no longer stomach the direction that the so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, and I invite you to join me.”

Gabbard did not say in her message whether she would join the Republican Party, register as a political independent, or join or start a third party. She spoke in February to the Conservative Political Action Network, in which she called for unity and deplored “the power elites” who are eroding individual rights.

“We have too many people in positions of power whose foremost responsibility is to protect our freedoms and uphold our God-given rights, and yet they are the ones who are actually trying to take these rights away from us,” Gabbard said in those remarks. . “This is the biggest threat to our country. It is not coming from some foreign country — it is coming from power elites here at home and their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state who are working to undermine our freedoms.”

Gabbard distanced herself from the Dems after her failed presidential bid and eventually went on to become a critic of Biden, denouncing him in May for labeling former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement as the “most extreme political organization that’s existed.”

At the time, Gabbard accused the president of equating Trump followers with terrorists “in an attempt to intimidate them into silence.”

“So he’s essentially saying that this, ‘MAGA crowd’ are worse than terrorists. This is outrageous. And so for every American who’s watching, every American who’s seen this, no matter how you feel about the MAGA crowd, this is an authoritarian assault on our freedom,” Gabbard told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

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Gabbard has also called out former President Barack Obama for “refusing” to say “Islamic extremists” are waging a war against the United States.

Known for her strong libertarian streak, Gabbard has spoken about the need to ban private prisons and emphasize rehabilitation in the criminal justice system.

An advocate for abortion rights, Gabbard has called state laws that would restrict the procedure “extremely dangerous.”

“It completely takes away the freedom of women to choose whether or not to have an abortion – even if a woman/girl is a victim of rape or incest. This law must be rejected,” she said on Twitter in May 2019 while criticizing an Alabama statute.




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