Pro-Choice Tulsi Gabbard Hails Looming Downfall of Roe v. Wade During Ingratiating Fox News Appearance

If you want a perfect encapsulation of where the anti-anti-Trump left is these days, look no further than Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance on Wednesday’s installment of Hannity.

The former Democratic congresswoman discussed a leaked draft opinion of an upcoming Supreme Court decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. This ruling would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing the constitutional right to an abortion. Written by Samuel Alito, Dobbs declares there is no such right, and that abortion should be left for the states to decide.

Though she once introduced a bill in Congress that would have banned abortions after about five months of pregnancy, Gabbard has said, “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.”

Moreover, in a response submitted to a Vote Smart questionnaire ahead of the 2020 presidential election, then-candidate Gabbard stated, “The very real possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned terrifies me. I am sick of women’s bodies being used as pawns so politicians can score cheap political points at the expense of their freedom and safety.”

So, of course, Gabbard did exactly as you’d expect. She went on television two days after it’d been reported that the Supreme Court is on the brink of overturning the very precedent whose elimination “terrifies” her, and she said so in no uncertain terms.

Just kidding.

Gabbard said she supports the court’s decision.

“I think when you look at the different efforts to assault our freedom and democracy, it continuously points to the fact that they’re afraid of the people,” she told Sean Hannity. “They’re afraid of us, they are afraid of this question being put to the people through their state legislatures for the people’s voices to be heard.”

“Us” seemingly includes her, a person who is on record defending the court’s decision in Roe, but is now apparently reversing course to own her fellow libs.

And of course, Gabbard attacked the leaker as well.

“This person is a thief who stole this information, released it with a very specific intent to try to when incite protesters and intimidate and pressure our Supreme Court justices to make a political decision rather than a decision that is based on the Constitution,” Gabbard stated.

She called the act a “crime,” even though the consensus among legal scholars appears to be that it is not, however fireable the offense may be.

Gabbard has been a fixture on Fox News primetime shows in recent months, where she has agreed with the hosts’ criticisms of various liberals while also firing her own broadsides at them on a variety of topics. I can recall only one notable exception to this pattern, which was an argument she had with Hannity over U.S. military aide to Ukraine.

Gabbard has cultivated a role as a so-called liberal who seems to relish telling conservatives just how awful her side is. This is hardly unique to her. There’s a small but loud Substack/Twitter universe of liberals and ex-lefties who’ve either gone all-in on Trumpism or espouse only opinions they know their audience wants to hear, lest they hemorrhage paying subscribers.

This sort of phenomenon isn’t exclusively the province of disaffected liberals, as the number of Never Trump conservatives on MSNBC will attest, not to mention the ludicrous popularity of the Lincoln Project among the left. People of this ilk aren’t really listened to because of what they say, but because of who they are. After all, having someone from across the political aisle trashing their own side can be incredibly validating for the target audience – and potentially lucrative for the person doing the trashing.

It’s called audience capture. And unless Tulsi Gabbard has undergone some kind of radical and genuine change in her views on say, abortion, climate change, and Medicare-for-All – which by the way, she has said she supports – she’s simply performing a minstrel show in the court of Fox News.

Watch above via Fox News.

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