
Tulsi Gabbard’s career as a national political figure has not been very long, but it has been unusually circuitous: her supporters and her detractors tend to agree on this, even though they disagree about what we should make of it. She comes from Hawaii, where she served in the state legislature and the National Guard; in those years, she campaigned against “homosexual advocacy organizations” and in favor of environmental protections. Gabbard was elected to Congress in 2012, running as a Democrat, and was made a vice-chair of the Democratic National...