Tulsi Gabbard and the Art of the Political Grift

Sometimes when I sit down to write about a political figure, the process can take anywhere from thirty minutes to fifteen hours. That’s just the writing. The editing? Forget it. Once Grammarly or whatever editing assistant I’m using gets involved, it can turn into a marathon of revisions and rewrites.

But not this time.

Tulsi Gabbard is such a flagrant and well-documented political grifter that I didn’t need a deep dive, a FOIA request, or a late-night research binge to pull this together. She practically grifted the article into existence.

I remember back in 2019 when Hillary Clinton called Tulsi Gabbard a Russian asset. At the time, I thought, “Damn, that’s harsh.” If you don’t have receipts, why throw out Cold War-level accusations like that? And at first glance, Gabbard looked like a fresh, interesting figure. New to the national scene. Youthful. Charismatic. Photogenic. She had just enough anti-war seasoning to attract disillusioned progressives and a few crossover libertarians. She said all the right things — just enough to be dangerous, never enough to be held accountable.

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I remember Hillary's warning. She didn't mention Gabbard by name but said one of the participants in the debate among candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination was a Russian asset. Tulsi immediately unpeeled like an onion.