Tulsi Gabbard’s Iconoclasm Is Exactly Why We Need Her
Kurt Schlichter
The establishment is up in arms because Donald Trump nominated Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence, and I must admit something – I probably don’t agree with some of the things Tulsi allegedly thinks. I’m generally more hawkish, and she’s generally more dovish. Now, we have to put things in perspective, because what regime media says about Tulsi Gabbard and her beliefs probably has nothing to do with Tulsi Gabbard or her beliefs. But let’s suspend disbelief for a moment – and that’s going to take a lot of suspending – and assume that the regime media is being honest and that she has a quirky foreign policy perspective that rejects the mainstream consensus about dictators like Vladimir Putin and former dictators/rogue ophthalmologists like Bashar al-Assad. If true, that is a good thing.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Again, they’re never specific about what Tulsi Gabbard supposedly does and doesn’t believe. What’s clear is that she is skeptical of the foreign policy consensus of the last couple of decades and that this threatens those invested in it. We also know she’s a combat veteran and a lieutenant colonel in the reserves who has served faithfully here and abroad. She quit the Democrats, and we know she’s rejected much of what her former party believes in – which is generally that same foreign policy consensus. She was one of the people who crossed the aisle to support Donald Trump, and she has fervent supporters that she brought into Trump’s unprecedented new coalition. If we’re talking about coalition politics, and adults talk about coalition politics as opposed to fantasy politics, then her selection as DNI makes sense. You reward the groups that make up your coalition. I, and likely you, are part of the hard-core conservative component that is a big part of Trump’s coalition but is by no means the only part. Everybody who helped sail the pirate ship gets a share of the booty. So, on that basis, it was important to reward Tulsi Gabbard.
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