Tulsi Gabbard blames ‘fanatical ideologues’ in the Democratic party for her decision to leave

Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday night accused ‘fanatical ideologues’ among the Democrats of steering the party in an extremist direction and moving away from fundamental protection of freedoms, describing party operatives as ‘vindictive’ and campaigning to silence anyone who disagreed.

Gabbard, 41, ran as a Democrat in the 2020 election, but retired from politics in 2021. 

On Tuesday morning she announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party, issuing a series of tweets criticizing the Democrats’ ‘cowardly wokeness’ and accusing them of ‘stoking anti-white racism’.

Hours later, she appeared on Fox News and told Tucker Carlson she could not longer align herself with the Democrats.

‘I cannot be a member of a party which actively undermines our freedom,’ she told Carlson. 

Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday night appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to explain her decision, announced earlier in the day, to quit the Democratic Party

Gabbard is seen in 2016 with Bernie Sanders, who she endorsed for president

Gabbard said she had ‘always been an independent-minded person’, and that her loyalties lay first with the Constitution.

She said she had been dismayed as the party she belonged to worked to ‘actively find ways to undermine our rights’, and would not tolerate dissent.

Gabbard, who famously opposed the party on Syria and disagreed with their support for the rebels, even traveling to Damascus to meet the dictator Bashar al-Assad, said the party responded by doing ‘all they can to silence you, to actively destroy anyone who dares to even question their agenda.’

The ex-representative for Hawaii‘s 2nd district said she would have preferred the Democratic leadership to say: ‘You know what, let’s agree to disagree.’

She added: ‘It speaks to the whole environment of fear that people are afraid to speak the truth.

‘Rather than taking a stand for peace, prosperity and the freedom of the American people we have too many in Washington who are warmongers.’

She told Carlson she strongly disagreed with the Biden administration on Russia, accusing them of ‘actively pushing us to the brink of a nuclear holocaust’. 

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Gabbard told Carlson she thought Biden was bringing the U.S. to the brink of ‘nuclear holocaust’

Asked about the response from other Democrats in Congress to her decision to quit the party, Gabbard said it had been silence – except for one, who sent her a text message with three thumbs up.

She would not say who sent the message. 

Earlier Gabbard, a United States Army Reserve officer, accused the party of ‘demonizing the police’, ‘protecting criminals’, ‘believing in open borders’ and ‘dragging us even closer to nuclear war‘.

She also urged those who agreed with her to leave – with just a month until the crucial midterm elections.

She published a video attacking the party, whose members she clams ‘actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms’. 

Gabbard made the announcement in the first episode of her new podcast – The Tulsi Gabbard Show. 

It is not clear whether she will join another party, or remain independent.

Gabbard has turned to political commentary since running for president in 2020 and leaving office in 2021 and has frequently attacked the Biden administration and the Democrats. 

In a tweet accompanying her video, she wrote: ‘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 & 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-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.

‘I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. 

Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday morning she is leaving the Democratic Party in a series of tweets criticizing their ‘cowardly wokeness’ and accusing them of ‘stoking anti-white racism’

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The ex-representative for Hawaii ‘s 2nd district and United States Army Reserve officer accused the party of ‘demonizing the police’, ‘protecting criminals’, ‘believing in open borders’ and ‘dragging us even closer to nuclear war ‘

‘I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people,’ she added. ‘Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. ‘Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite’

‘Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. 

‘I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. 

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

DailyMail.com columnist Meghan McCain congratulated Gabbard in a tweet, saying: ‘There are so few free thinkers and independents left in this world and you are one of them. We are in your corner. Onward and upward!’

Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020 after serving she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21 and serving in the field medical unit of the Hawaii National Guard.

She deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and served in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader. 

Gabbard, who used to be aligned with Bernie Sanders, has shifted her stance, and this year spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

In February, she received a standing ovation for her speech attacking the ‘power elite’ and ‘their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state.’

She pleased crowd by saying that in an ideal world ‘our leaders would haul (former Director of National Intelligence) James Clapper before a judge to answer for his lies to Congress about how the government is collecting information.’ 

‘And they would support the Durham investigation and Clinton corruption in 2016… ,’ she said, not even finishing her sentence before there was raucous applause.

She went after both Democrats and Republicans in Congress ‘who talk a good game about civil liberties, but 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.’

In 2019, Hillary Clinton famously suggested the Russians were ‘grooming’ Gabbard, though didn’t use the congresswoman’s name.

She also urged those who agreed with her to leave with just a month until the crucial midterm elections in a video attacking the institution whose members she clams ‘actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms’

Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020 after serving she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21 and serving in the field medical unit of the Hawaii National Guard. 

Gabbard had quit her post at the Democratic National Committee three years before to publicly support Sanders, who was running against Clinton.

She told then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in an email – exposed in the Wikileaks hack – that she felt the DNC was rigging the primary in favor of the more mainstream Clinton. 

In April 2022, she got into a spat with Republican Senator Mitt Romney after he accused her of ‘treasonous lies’ for her claims that the U.S. was funding biolabs in Ukraine.

She sent Romney a cease and desist letter accusing him of ‘false and defamatory statements’. 

Gabbard claimed in a tweet that there are ’25 to 30 U.S. funded bio labs in Ukraine.’

‘According to the U.S government, these bio labs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens,’ she said in the video. 

‘These pathogens know no borders, if they are inadvertently or purposely breached or compromised, they will quickly spread all throughout Europe, the United States and the rest of the world causing untold suffering and death.’

Gabbard said ‘these labs need to be shut down immediately and the pathogens that they hold need to be destroyed.’