Former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard breaks down the foundation for anti-Israel protests across the United States on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

The following is excerpted from Tulsi Gabbard’s book "For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind" (Regnery Publishing), which is being released Tuesday, April 30.

We have no time to waste. We live in troubled times. Our nation is bitterly divided. Our future as a republic, as a union, appears bleak. The news – the noise, the insanity, the darkness – is something many of us want to shut out. There are times when all I want to do is grab my surfboard and paddle out into the ocean, or go for a hike in the mountains, and appreciate the peace and majesty of Mother Nature.

But there is too much at stake, in this moment, to put our heads in the sand and go about our lives with blinders on hoping the insanity will fade away. The insanity and threats to our constitutional democracy will not fade away and will only increase unless we stand up and remind those trying to destroy this country that ours is a government of, by, and for the people.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

I joined the Democratic Party in Hawaii in 2002 because I saw a party that, at that time, appeared to be the party of........

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