Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard stated in a new interview that members of the Democratic Party are “trying to be God” to become the arbiters of truth, warning that this ideology is similar to dictatorships.

Gabbard was discussing her new book, For Love of Country, and how she writes in one chapter that the Democratic Party has hostility towards religious people and how Democratic elites wish to remove religion altogether. Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, was then asked if she believed that her former party is on “the side of evil,” to which she agreed, explaining how people in power “put themselves in the position of being the ultimate authority.”

“They see themselves as the ones who should be the arbiter of who gets to speak, and who does not get to speak,” Gabbard said to Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “They see themselves as the arbiter of objective truth, that they are the ones who can say, ‘no, David, if you believe that you are a woman, then you can be a woman.”

Gabbard further explained that the Democratic Party’s denial of objective truth has had major impacts on women and girls, pointing to the Biden administration’s recent adjustments to Title IX. The denial of objective truth by people in power, Gabbard said, removes guardrails in society where the truth becomes whatever they desire, “putting themselves in that position of trying to be God.”

“They believe they should be able to control us in every aspect of our lives,” Gabbard said. “They believe that they have the authority and the right to take away God-given, truly God-given rights and freedoms that are enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. You can see in dictators in different countries and throughout history how dangerous that mindset is and the evil that comes from that.”

Gabbard’s book, in which she explains why she left the Democratic Party, released on April 30, and as of Thursday morning is Amazon’s No. 1 seller for books related to U.S. national government.

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Gabbard is rumored to be on former President Donald Trump’s short list for vice presidential candidates, a position she has said she would be ready to accept to “serve my country” if offered. In an interview from last month, Gabbard said she does not doubt Trump’s loyalty to the United States, pointing to how he is running for president again despite his multitude of legal battles. 

In the event that she did become Trump’s vice president, however, Gabbard said her loyalty would always be to the United States, and not to a specific political party.