I..appreciate the honesty Tulsi offers on a number of issues, but I think she is deceptively disingenuous about her political alignment and final motivesfor opportunistic purposes...I dont think for one second she is not aware of the support she carries in Trump country due to a mutual dislike of Hillary Clinton, and I think she was and is not above playing to that particular crowd on an almost subliminal level as a pathway to power.
All that being said.. I think she served an effective purpose in this Democratic Primary. Though most complain about the "purity tests" common to Dems' internal debates and elections, I think those moments serve as valuable crucibles that either strengthen and clarify great candidates, or burn off unprepared ones.
Tulsi made two things very clear this primary season; Hillary is toxic and hypocrisy must be addressed and redirected...No Dem is aligning themselves with the Clintons, and Kamala Harris found out first hand you better have a damn good explanation and alternate plan of attack when a fellow candidate easily points out how your record does not match your rhetoric.
I don't know anyone in the Democratic party who aligns with Assad in Syria - except Tulsi. He used her visit to talk to him as a propaganda video. This is a man who gassed his own people. Sorry, I align with Hillary on that point. Tulsi has a long ugly history of attacking gays for bring gay and any one who disagreed with her in her early political career were labeled 'radical homosexuals' - regardless of their orientation. She comes late to the argument that equality matters. Again, I align with Hillary.
You and others can talk about your mutual dislike of Hillary, but 3 plus million voters aligned with her over Trump. Save for 30,000 votes spread over three states she would have won the electoral college as well. That's on her for neglecting Pa. and Michigan - it is not a repudiation of her at all. You can talk until Hell freezes over about who might beat Trump - Hillary actually did.
Senator Harris did not drop in the polls because of her comments about Biden. She dropped because she could not present a vision. She did not light a fire. Biden has a checkered history. He is semi-beloved right now as "Obama-white." While people bitch about Senator Harris as a prosecutor Biden was writing the laws that she prosecuted. He also was known as the Senator from MBNA (Maryland National Bank - a Delaware Corporation) for the generous protections he gave credit card companies that fuel part of the debt crisis. Her 'attack' on him for opposing busing was spot on. Busing scared the liberal white voters in droves. Rather than lead, Biden, like Bill Clinton placated their anger and the result is crappy education for poor people of color for another generation. No, it wasn't a popular position, but leader need to take them to be called leaders.
If we're talking toxic, and hypocrisy - this week showed - we're not talking Hillary, we're talking Tulsi.