Tulsi Gabbard
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She's in her mid-late 20s talking about how her whole family's, they're all Democrats.
And she's just like, the Democratic Party doesn't make sense to me.
And so she appreciated the book because it helped her articulate to her family just the insanity that's going on and hoping that that causes them to have a different look at maybe the party that they've always known, which just doesn't exist today.
So I'm just encouraged that it's giving people food for thought, as there are a lot of politically homeless Americans who love our country but who are kind of disgusted by our politics today.
Yeah.
To understand our role.
And that's really at the end of the book.
There's a call to action there where we can talk all day and all night about the problems with our politics in America today.
But what good is that unless we actually do something about it?
Fascinating.
But I said that, you know?
That's important though.
I mean, this is how we reach people.
Yeah, I mean, I introduced legislation while I was in Congress called the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.
And the fact that that would even have to be done at all is a whole conversation in and of itself.
But this was specific to, under President Obama, how they were both directly and indirectly arming actual terrorists in Syria in that regime change war.
And again, not thinking through, I mean, they saw, okay, well, these terrorists, you know, it was al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, these various terrorist organizations there that we as taxpayers were funding because President Obama wanted to topple the regime in Syria.
And obviously these guys were the most effective fighting force that they thought would be able to do that.
And I served on the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees in Congress as this was going on.
And when I asked questions about, well, okay, so this is your goal.