Tulsi Gabbard is this weird contradictory figure that the more I learn about the more contradictory my views on her get. I'd say mixed bag, she was certainly in the top 10% of candidates for me but just so much stuff with her background and controversies throw red flags to me.
That said had she endorsed HRC in 2016 and continued her rising star of the Democratic Party path, I'm not so sure our emphasis on her failings would be so prevalent.
She gets a lot of unnecessary hate for having homophobic views when she was younger. While I obviously disagree with the opinions she once espoused, I think she has genuinely moved past them and has offered up a very credible explanation for why she evolved on that issue, as opposed to some political opportunists who transparently changed their views on gay marriage only when public opinion had first shifted. I also think we should cut her some slack given that she was raised in what seems to have been a rather insular cultish environment, which must have heavily influenced her when she was at an impressionable age. It's not easy to break that kind of conditioning, so I find that commendable on her part.
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