Who's written the best piece about why @SenatorSinema is so much more conservative than her state requires of her? Why deny people aid & stymie climate policy & generally cause misery when you don't have to? Why ensure that the Senate is paralyzed & useless if you don't have to?
More on @SenatorSinema's terrible political moves -- terrible on the substance, terrible on political strategy. They're good for one thing: building a flattering image in the DC press. What a sad waste. politico.com/news/2019/10/2…
This review of @SenatorSinema's book is revealing. She learned that working with Rs at the state level is pragmatic (true!) & has now made that into an image/identity, which she has carried to DC. But the same strategy in DC accomplishes NOTHING. phoenixnewtimes.com/news/we-read-a…
Siding with Republicans in DC -- by supporting Trump's crap, by clinging to the filibuster, by rejecting ambitious policy -- is the opposite of "pragmatism." It quite deliberately ensures nothing can get done. She & Manchin have both convinced themselves that stasis is a virtue.
Manchin arguably has to do this stuff, though. @SenatorSinema doesn't. She's just straight-up betraying the progressive values she used to hold, for nothing -- no good reason, no outcome, no result, nothing. Just a twisted kind of vanity. She should be ashamed.
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