What if the Clintonistas couldn't win with the hag, so Hillary and company decided to used the hatred for the hag in order to prop up their proxy candidate through a fake dust up, in a deliberately bad field of candidates, to see if they have more luck with a hot chick?

I strongly suspect that Tulsi may be a proxy for the Clintons, and that the Democrats are looking seriously into a Tulsi/Buttigieg ticket in 2020.