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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is taking heat from fellow Democrats for going on Sean Hannitys Fox News program Monday night. And saying she supports Donald Trump firing the impeachment witnesses, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.

Thats not a very popular idea among Democrats right now.

In fact, Democrats and even non-partisan media analysts have been discussing the firings as if President Donald Trump is some kind of all-powerful despot now.

They prove hes the dangerous and terrible autocrat Democrats warned about.

So we get headlines like, Trump weaponizes the Presidency after impeachment victory, and Donald Trumps Impeachment Revenge Has Only Just Begun.

The weaponizes headline comes from a CNN political analyst who says:

[Trump] is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. Its unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance.

That does make a compelling, dramatic narrative, and happens to serve partisan Democratic campaign messaging (or so they think). But its groundless hyperbole.

Tulsi Gabbard, who served as a combat medic in Iraq knows what real unrestrained, unaccountable dictatorships look like. Actual autocrats, ruling over truly despotic regimes, would have disappeared Vindman and Sondland and their whole families.

In those countries, rebels assassinate, they dont impeach. And rulers execute.

But America is still America. And Donald Trump is not any more powerful than Barack Obama or George W. Bush were. Trump merely fired the witnesses. The brothers Vindman havent even lost their jobs. Theyre just transferring posts from the White House to the Pentagon. Sondland will land on his feet. Theyll all be fine.

Mid-tier government officials openly revolted against the sitting executive of the most powerful nation on earth, and simply had to change jobs as a consequence.

That proves what a great country America is.

Watch Donald Trump defend Tulsi Gabbard:

She not an asset of Russia. These people are sick. Theres something wrong with them.

Trump swept to power because of the kind of politics Tulsi Gabbard opposes. The middle got tired of Democrats blowing little things out of proportion. While twisting harmless things out of context. And doing it all with an animus of malice and hatred.

Tulsi Gabbard is the Democrat her party needs most at this moment, but she wont be elevated as their standard bearer. Because shes not the hero they deserve.

The most visible leaders of the party of Jefferson, in elected office and the media, have made a death pact with the cynical politics of arrogance and hatred.

But that made Donald Trump their North star. Everything they do is in relation to hating and opposing Trump, which brings them into his orbit.

By contrast, Tulsi Gabbard defines herself by her progressive politics, not knee-jerk hatred and heart palpitations any time Trump breathes.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of CCN.com.

This article was edited by Sam Bourgi.

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