More On Populism and Tulsi Gabbard
Posted by Socrates in populism, populism as the future of politics, populists versus elites, Tulsi Gabbard at 5:35 pm | 
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I keep thinking back to what someone said, re: Tulsi Gabbard. It makes me go “hmmmmmm” every time.
The fellow said:
“Consider this: the Democrats had a guaranteed home run with Tulsi Gabbard running for president in 2020. A total, for-sure home run! Think about it: here you’ve got it all in a Democrat candidate: a female, a Brown person, smart, well-spoken, well-traveled, worldly, well-liked by men and women both. She was a home run for the Dems times three! She would have gotten the female vote, the male vote, the leftist vote, the Brown vote, the independent vote, etc., etc., etc. She could have likely beaten Donald Trump in the election. But what did the Democrats do?? They totally ignored her from the get-go! Worse than that, even: they completely blacklisted her! Never even mentioned her name! Very odd! And Big Social Media was accused of ignoring her and even working against her on orders of the Mainstream Left.”
Yes, indeed! Very odd! The liberal power base is female (56% of the U.S. vote), Jewish, Black and Brown. So, very odd — unless, of course, you consider one important thing: she was a populist in many ways. She spoke honestly. And she was anti-Zionist — not necessarily anti-Israel, mind you, just anti-endless-foreign-wars such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and she said as much [1].
Anyway, Tulsi was liberal enough that, had she become president, she would have “acted correctly” on most liberal issues for the Democrats. Furthermore, the liberals would not have had to later steal the election and install Dementia Joe and what’s-her-name. Further, Tulsi would have been re-elected, thereby making the Democrat “brand” very popular for the next decade. The Democrats threw all of that away. Why steal the election when you don’t have to? Why risk a black stain on the Democrat “brand” when half of America finally figures out that the election was indeed stolen? (Consider: the very idea that Dementia Joe got 80 million votes when Barack Obama didn’t get close to that number! Old Joe wasn’t capable of getting 8 million votes, let alone 80 million! The game is up. The election was stolen!).
I suggest that the main reason why the Democrats blacklisted Tulsi is because she was too populist. Too willing to “fight for the common man versus fight for the Washington elites.” A big secondary reason, of course, was that Tulsi was anti-endless-foreign-wars.
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[1] “For Gabbard, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable. She criticizes what she terms the “neoliberal/neoconservative war machine”, which pushes for US involvement in “wasteful foreign wars”. She has said that the money spent on war should be redirected to serve health care, infrastructure, and other domestic priorities.” — Wikipedia, Jan. 2022