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How The Establishment Retaliated Against Tulsi Gabbard By Endorsing Her Opponent

If you have paid any attention whatsoever to the political discourse in the last week, you undoubtedly know at least one thing: Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard do not like one another. The reasons for this could theoretically stretch back to 2016, when Gabbard stepped down from her Vice-Chair position at the DNC to endorse Clinton’s opponent — Bernie Sanders. Most recently, and more importantly most tangibly, a war of the words sparked between the two when Clinton alluded to Gabbard being “groomed" as a Russian asset. As you can imagine, this didn’t sit well with the Congresswoman and National Guard Major. Gabbard fired back with a series of tweets and a video, taking Clinton to task on her foreign policy record. While the message was important, it was the action that was most significant. A Democrat taking a fiercely public stand against Hillary Clinton is an act of defiance rarely seen in a non election scenario — and while Gabbard is indeed running for President, Clinton is (at the moment) a spectator. The aftermath of the exchange has very quickly brought out the full force of a very much alive Clinton-wing of the establishment left. Their response has been strategic and cutthroat — the Democrats have decided to Primary one of their own. To make sure that…