I see the knives are out for Tulsi big time now...

[hlthe2b]

22. "Do we still have this thing about not trashing Democrats?" you ask

Yes. Only it is Tulsi Gabbard who is doing the trashing.

I don't want to personalize this. But, if, as you seem to show from your choice of candidate (Klobuchar) are defending Gabbard, it seems inexplicable. Klobuchar is the anti-Gabbard in every sense of the word. And if you open your eyes, Gabbard may be benefitting from RW and Russian bot and financial support largely because of her support for a pull-out in Syria and defense of Assad and less so for her Trump-like support of Russia and Putin, but it is there nonetheless.

November 18, 2019 (not a historical study whatsoever, but conducted by the well respected Clint Watts):
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russian-web-trolls-boo-biden-often-boost-gabbard-report-finds-n1085216

WASHINGTON — Among Democrats running for president, Tulsi Gabbard is popular with Russian propagandists, while Joe Biden draws the most criticism, according to a new analysis.

Mentions of Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, by English-language Russian propaganda outlets were 46 percent favorable and 44 percent unfavorable, a research team from the Foreign Policy Research Institute found after analyzing more than 1,700 news stories put out by Sputnik and Russia Today, or RT. She was the only Democratic candidate with more favorable than unfavorable mentions.

References to the former vice president, by contrast, were 3 percent favorable and 53 percent unfavorable. The rest were neutral.

For Russia thus far, Biden is to 2020 what Hillary Clinton was to 2016, the researchers found.

"When I watched Russian state-sponsored content and social media trolling headed into election 2016, it was overwhelmingly negative toward Hillary Clinton. The same could be said today of former Vice President Biden," said Clint Watts, a former FBI agent and NBC News contributor who led the effort.