“She’s a sussy baka” I think is the Twitter/YouTube impression outside of lolcows, and IDW types. For normal human beings who work or study or party or game, it’s like “literally who?” Or “oh I saw her a couple times” or “oh I saw her on Joe Rogan isn’t she like Bernie, I mean I voted for Yang I mean I would’ve but I was totally baked”
Yeah honestly I feel like having strong opinions of Tulsi Gabbard is basically just a symptom of being terminally online. Which is not to say that the criticism people have of her are invalid. But I highly doubt an ordinary Democrat voter (outside of Hawaii) has particularly strong opinions of Tulsi Gabbard.