When Tulsi Gabbard announced in 2022 that she was leaving the Democratic Party, she made her departure, in part, a matter of faith.
“The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality,” the former Hawaii congresswoman said in a video statement at the time.
More than three years later, Gabbard, who now serves as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Security and as a thorn in the side of the deep state, suggests things haven’t improved any on the leftist front.
Gabbard blasted her old party on X Tuesday, doing what so many of its members have refused to do: condemn the radical, anti-ICE agitators who on Sunday stormed into a St. Paul Baptist church to fix their rabid rage for Trump on the congregation.
“One of the main reasons I left the Democratic Party is its leaders’ attempts to undermine religious freedom, erase God’s presence from every aspect of public life, and their open hostility toward people of faith and spirituality.” Gabbard wrote. “The anti‑ICE mob staging a so‑called ‘protest’ inside this Minneapolis church during a service is the latest example of their disrespect for religious freedom and rejection of our right to worship as we choose.”
The desecration of Cities Church was carried live by bitter race-baiter Don Lemon as the unhinged demonstrators screamed at congregants, chanting “ICE out!” and “Justice for Renee Good” and demanding to know why they weren’t down at the Minneapolis ICE facility “standing up for the Latino and Somali communities?”
It’s just the latest round of chaos wrought by radical soldiers marching to take Trump down via violent clashes with Department of Homeland Security immigration law enforcers.
As she departed the party in October 2022, two years after the Black Lives Matter riots and Democrats’ defund-the-police movement of 2020, Gabbard said she had had enough of the demonizing of police and progressive policies that protected criminals “at the expense of law-abiding Americans.”
The more things change …
‘Quite Conspicuous’
Radicalization of the Democratic Party remains a growing concern among Democrats, even as party officials claim Trump and his policies will unleash a “blue wave” in November’s midterms.
“..[W]e need to moderate our positions on issues where our agenda is unpopular, including immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues,” a report from a trio of Democrat operatives titled “Deciding to Win” urged the party. It called for a “Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party.”
It seems few in the party are heeding that call.
More alarming is the refusal by Democrats in Minnesota to unequivocally condemn the mob assault on the church. Gov. Tim Walz, whose incendiary comments attacking DHS agents have helped light the fuse, has said he doesn’t support interrupting a place of worship. That’s not condemning it.
Walz and Minneapolis leftist Mayor Jacob Frey are weak, and they are stuck. They can’t tell the radicals they’ve helped take over the Democratic Party to now play nice.
Legal expert Jonathan Turley told Fox News that the lack of law enforcement response from local officials has been “quite conspicuous.”
“I mean there has to be at some point which Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey will come out and say, ‘Enough,’ I mean for the love of Mike, and say, “You’ve got to stop this.’ But we really haven’t heard that coming from these local politicians,” the George Washington University Law School professor said.
“Anti-God Sentiment
Trump called on the church invaders to be “thrown in jail.”
“Just watched footage of the church raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals,” the president posted on Truth Social Tuesday morning. “They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the country.”
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice, which is reportedly investigating the church incident, subpoenaed Walz, Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and other Twin Cities-area officials seeking documents, ABC News reported. Federal prosecutors want to know whether the liberal officials have obstructed DHS law enforcement officers.
The Federalist has filed an open records request seeking communications from Walz and others surrounding the fatal shooting of Renee Good, the anti-ICE radical fatally shot by a DHS agent after she appears to have struck the officer with her vehicle.
The attack on the church raises even deeper concerns about leftist assaults on Christians. In late August, after a mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church killed two people and injured 17 others, Frey mocked the faithful in pursuit of making a political point.
“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying,” the leftist said at a press conference. Former Biden White House liar Jen Psaki said the same.
“Those like @jenpsaki and @Jacob_Frey who criticize prayers in the wake of the Minneapolis tragedy are expressing the same anti-God sentiment that motivated the shooter— he aimed his wrath at God by trying to stop people with his bullets from praying to God,” Gabbard wrote on X at the time. “Now is a time for us to come together and join hands in prayer, for the children who were killed, their loved ones, and those who survived this horrific shooting.”
Less than a half year later, Democrats refuse to condemn the radicals who desecrated Cities Church.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
