The gulf between Trumpβs actions and Gabbardβs worldview made the latterβs position untenable. Perhaps her fate was sealed last June when, less than two weeks before Operation Midnight Hammer, she posted a video in which she said βpolitical elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powersβ. The post appeared shortly before the US struck Iranβs nuclear sites in an operation almost borrowed from the plot of Top Gun: Maverick.