She’s probably the highest-ranking elected Green Party politician in America. Particularly in California, the Greens are what we call “watermelons”: Environmentalist Green on the outside, but Marxist Red on the inside.
She’s a LaRouchite. They’re essentially a political cult that transcends normal left/right political distinctions, and has achieved their own nonlinear level of craziness.
That was the takeback I got. Remember the beginning of the Iraq War, when they could put tens of thousands of people on city streets at a few days’ notice?