Sinema defecting from the party, and the risk she could take voters with her, means Democrats’ margin for error is slim over the next two years. (via The ReidOut Blog)
Maybe you couldn’t hear them over the sounds of centrist pearl-clutching. Sinema announced she's leaving the Democratic Party
and registering as an independent, claiming the choice was a high-minded decision to lessen the vitriol in politics. Ultimately, though, she just confirmed what a lot of progressives have warned about for years: She’s cravenly self-interested and willing to placate an illiberal conservative movement — despite coming from an increasingly liberal state — if it ups her chances of maintaining power.
“Today, Kyrsten Sinema told us what we already knew for years: that she is not a Democrat and simply out for herself,” Alejandra Gomez, executive director of Latino community organizing group Living United for Change in Arizona,In this case, leaving the Democratic Party could have some obvious advantages for Sinema in the short term.
“Senator Sinema may now be registered as an independent, but she has shown she answered to corporations and billionaires, not Arizonans,” Arizona Democrats said in a statement on Friday. “Senator Sinema’s party affiliation means nothing if she continues not to listen to her constituents.” Those last lines are vital. Arizona is becoming more liberal, and its lurch to the left hasn’t been passive. It’s the product of
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