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| Gabbard |
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.”
ll, 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.
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