The un-American authoritarian government in DC actually placed her on the terrorist watchlist. That is all anyone needs to know.
They acted like she might try to take over an airliner and put sky marshals on her plane to presumably shoot her if she tried.
She is a great pick.
This has become the calling card, if not the rallying cry of the modern democrat party and political left. Their leadership and puppet masters may know better, but they count on followers and supporters cultivated through emotion and feelings rather than through rationality and logic, in other words, useful idiots.
What I admire about Gabbard is that by all appearances, she seems to have made herself a very rare exception to Swift's observation, and has seen the absurdities of many leftist views. This takes some introspection and intellectual honesty. For her to openly question her past views and party affiliation in the current political atmosphere is a tremendous act of moral and political courage.