As I have written before with regard to President Trump, very few people in life possess that all elusive “It" factor. You either have it or you don’t. Trump has it in spades.
You can’t buy it, manufacture it, or copy it. It’s either part of your DNA or it’s not. But if it is, the cachet can prove priceless. One of its powers is the ability to open eyes, shape minds, shift policy and create a following.
That said, the many benefits of having that “It" factor can be wasted if it is not backed up with intelligence, real-world experience, original thinking, certitude and the ability to recognize opportunity. Again, Trump is lacking in none of those areas, which is why he is getting more accomplished in his first two months in office than any other president in American history.
One of his accomplishments is the strength and diversity of his Cabinet. While many in the media (and all on the left) would deny it, Trump has assembled a very impressive “America First” Cabinet. But, when it comes to that “It" factor, there may be two who stand out: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Both are game-changers on multiple levels, but it is Gabbard I want to focus on here. She is the eighth Senate-confirmed and first female combat veteran to be the director of national intelligence. If one takes even a cursory look at Gabbard’s background, one will quickly discover that it contains a great deal of “firsts.”
At the age of 21, Gabbard became the youngest woman ever elected as a U.S. state representative and of course the youngest in the history of Hawaii. When elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, she became the first Samoan American and first Hindu elected to Congress. Come 2019, when Gabbard chose to run for president, she became the first female combat veteran to run for the office.
Back in 2003, Gabbard felt it was her patriotic duty to join the Army National Guard. In 2004, she was deployed to Iraq. And speaking of that “real world” experience, it should be noted that Gabbard still serves in the National Guard to this day — hence her revulsion at useless wars and the elites anxious to send our young men and women to fight and die in them.
Back when the Democratic Party was sane and spoke out for the rights of the disenfranchised, the poor and women, Gabbard’s real-life experiences and accomplishments would have been heralded by the Democratic leadership. And for one brief moment in time, they were. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) selected Gabbard to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, where she was introduced as “an emerging star.”
But then, for the Democratic leadership, the unthinkable happened. That young, impressive Democratic woman began to think for herself. Cue the panic and smears of Gabbard by the Democrats.
As Gabbard quickly learned, the Democratic leadership truly only cared about women and their rights if those women bent to the accepted narrative and got in line. As Gabbard has proven her entire career, she has never been one to “get in line.” She is an original thinker who rightfully questions the narratives put forth by the elites, be they about COVID, the Middle East, Ukraine or the blatant bias in the mainstream media favoring the left.
When she was a Democrat and proved herself a pesky “original thinker,” the party and the media were content with dismissing her or even smearing her character. But since she became a Republican, endorsed Trump, and now leads the Office of National Intelligence, many on the left truly fear her. Why?
It comes back to Gabbard’s “It Factor,” combined with her current position. For decades, the minority, poor and disenfranchised communities have been ignored or taken for ...
