I have not bought into the whole Gabbard thing yet.
Gabbard is a Democrat. She turned away from the Democrat Party because it is controlled now by Green cultists, tyranical criminal / treasonous Marxists / authoritarians, 'Woke' freaks who are targeting our kids, and have really gone over their 'flat-earth' edge with insanely radical faird policies and agendas.
As reported recently, a LOT of Democrats are doing that. It does not take changing party affiliation to oppose such radical, criminal behavior / policirs / agendas.
I do not believe all those 'common sense' / traditional Democrats walking away from the 'CRAZY LEFTIST'-run Democrats have beome 'Conservatives / Republicans'.
I feel the same way about Gabbard.
The sanity in the Democrat Party ha been purged by tbe raidical, criminal, treasonous, Green cult, Death cult / power / money /control hungry leftist extremists.
Those runing from the Democrats now seem to be heading towards the original center-left, to the more Traditional Democrat party that no longer seems to exist. Ther are not, IMO, becoming Conservatives / Republicans.
Gabbard is a Democrat, more aligned wth the original / old school Democrat Party. Just because she rebuked the hell out of the rabid Leftists who have hijacked the Democrat Party does not make her a Conservative / Republican.
She might turn out to be like Trump - once a leftist / Democrat 'beloved darling' until he ran as a Republican, but she has more to prove she is walking completely away frm the Democrats and is embracing and joining the opposition, intent ontaking down the Drmocrat Party...IMHO.