Independent reporter Michael Tracey argues that Tulsi Gabbard is super-opportunist even by the standards of US politics. Indeed, her opportunism is almost irrational, since her position within the Trump administration apparently doesn´t come with much power anyway.
Maybe. But there is one aspect Tracey never mentions. Gabbard is a member of a mysterious religious sect, Science of Identity, led by one Chris Butler. There is no evidence that she is Butler´s intelligencer or infiltrator in Washington DC, but I can´t help wondering. During her political career, Tulsi Gabbard has befriended the DNC, Bernie Sanders, Joe and Jill Biden, and now Donald Trump. Which makes no sense...unless somebody really wants to have (dis)info on everyone in DC.
A more mundane explanation, I suppose, would be that Gabbard is a BJP asset. Her contacts with Hindu nationalists were apparently quite extensive already during her "leftist" period. Perhaps PM Modi uses her as a listening post and lobbyist? Maybe Modi correctly predicted Trump´s victory in 2024 and quietly told Gabbard to support him?
Of course, there is yet another possibility: Gabbard is crazy. Not in the clinical sense, of course, but in the everyday sense of that term. She´s something of a kook, which explains why she is still a member of Butler´s New Religious Movement (a peculiar breakaway from the Hare Krishna). I admit that I´m kind of weirded out by the Gabbardian situation myself!
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