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Note to DNC Chair Tom Perez: The Progressives aren’t going away
By Kent R. Kroeger (Source: NuQum.com, April 16, 2018)
Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t resort to name-calling (like I do), sticks to the facts (which I don’t), and focuses on problem-solving through inclusion and compromise (sounds like a lot of work to me). In other words, she’s completely out of place in today’s partisan political climate.
She also provokes her party elders when she exposes the Democratic Party’s hypocrisy, be it how the Obama administration helped in arming Islamic terror groups in Syria or the undemocratic super delegates the Democratic National Committee (DNC) includes in the selection process for the party’s presidential nominee.
“Gabbard has managed to put together a coalition that is unheard of for Democrats,” says The Hill’s Michael Starr Hopkins. “Never before have we seen a Democrat who has managed to receive praise from (Vermont Senator) Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon at the same time. Gabbard clearly has no fear when it comes to upsetting the leadership of her party.”
Underwriting her many qualities is her instinctive aversion to elite-sourced, media-propelled group-think. When the U.S. media was quick to condemn Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks in Khan Shaykhun a year ago, Gabbard said the U.S…
