Tulsi Gabbard

It took me a lot longer.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, it all worked out, I think, for the best because the book came out at kind of a fortuitous time given what's going on in the country and with this election.

Yeah.

We made the New York Times bestseller list, which I was surprised by.

Congratulations.

I've heard so many stories about how that's very much an editorial decision on the New York Times part.

So I'm glad that it broke through.

And it's been encouraging how many people I hear from still

It's been a few months since the book came out, who either tell me that their own experience is reflected in my book about why they left the Democratic Party.

I met a young woman recently.

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?