Tulsi just weirdly dropped out of her Congressional race to focus on the POTUS race she is not going to win.
"liberal" social media absolutely despises her, mostly Hillary Clinton superfans and have been smearing her as of late. She does have some valid criticisms, especially on Modi and Kashmir, but a TON of the current "oppo" on her floating around are hit pieces composed of entirely made up things to things taken out of context, or things from her past that she has genuinely evolved from.
Doesn't matter though, she's not going anywhere near the nomination. As
@jt212713 would say about his nightmare and boogeyman that keeps him huddled into a ball under the covers late at night, I can feel comfortable with saying "0%" when it comes to Tulsi and the nomination.
Like just about everything in politics, it's not a binary situation as to whether she is "good" or "bad". She supports many noble things and called out the DNC for its corruption and fixing of the primaries and for many, it was the first exposure people had to the notion that the DNC isn't exactly Democratic and looking out for the best interests of the people when it was assumed they were, because, Republicans bad (and for the most part, that they are bad).
I looked at
her opponent who is gaining steam and he's a bona fide progressive. He supports a true Medicare For All (something Tulsi never did), supports Bernie's War Powers resolution, Green New Deal... these are the litmus test for a progressive and he has passed them. At first glance he passes all the other standard boiler plate items such as LGBT, income disparity, etc.
In a bit of irony these Bernie bashing pro-Hillary superfans have been endorsing Kai Kahele to spite Tulsi and they don't know whether to shit or go blind when I point out he's running on Bernie's platform and they are at conflict with all their MSNBC (and conservative) talking points about how all these things won't work; ie, I've presented to them their bias and double standard.