Tulsi Gabbard’s New Book Compels Through Honesty

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Normally, I have little interest in politicians’ books that seem no more than campaign adjuncts. But I’m glad I made the exception with Tulsi Gabbard’s book.

I could be accused of favoritism toward those who have changed their views in my positive response to Tulsi Gabbard’s compelling new book “For Love of Country” (publication date, April 30), because I am one myself.

Some years before Ms. Gabbard, starting in the 1990s and never looking back after Sept. 11, 2001, I moved from the left to the right.

That has made me sensitive to, sometimes subject to, criticisms you find online that changers are not “for real.” Why weren’t you conservative 20 years ago? (In my case 40 years ago.)

Reminding those folks that Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump made similar journeys seems to have no effect, nor does the obvious truth that if people were not allowed or encouraged to change their views, what would be the point of a constitutional republic or any form of democratic government?

Most people know the outlines of Ms. Gabbard’s story—well filled out in the book—from her appearances on cable television: how she was elected to the Hawaii legislature at 21 but left, after 9/11, to serve three military deployments in the Middle East and Africa to return to be a congresswoman from Hawaii from 2013 to 2021, and was even vice chair of the Democratic National Committee before quitting the Democratic Party, apparently for good, in 2022.

The full title, including the subtitle, of her book makes her current views explicit: “For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind.”

The work abounds with powerful denunciations—she does not mince words—of today’s Democratic Party from the prevarications and betrayals of the Biden White House and its supporters in the press to the far reaches of “woke” and the concomitant attacks on the police that she first discovered in her native Hawaii and then saw metastasizing across the country.

By Roger L. Simon

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