whatyareckon

By Jarrett Stepman ~

“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party.”

That was the message former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a now-former Hawaii Democrat, delivered Tuesday. Her message was clear: The Democratic Party has gone off the deep end of left-wing extremism.

Then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, addresses the South Carolina Democratic Party state convention on June 22, 2019, in Columbia, South Carolina, during an unsuccessful bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Gabbard left Congress in January 2021 and on Tuesday left the Democratic Party. (Photo: Sean Rayford/ Getty Images)

In a 30-minute video announcing the launch of her podcast and an accompanying essay on Substack, Gabbard, 41, announced that she’s leaving the Democratic Party and laid out her reasons for doing so.

This move, it seems, has been in the works for a while.

Gabbard, who served four terms representing Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District from 2013 to 2021…