Reactions have been mixed as to the significance of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-Ariz.) recent announcement that she quit the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, ranging from views that it changes “nothing much” to the move being “nothing but a Dem loss.”
Sinema said in a recent statement on social media and in an op-ed in The Arizona Republic that she was leaving the Democrats because she’s fed up with a “broken partisan system in Washington” that makes a priority of denying the rival party a win rather than “delivering for all Americans.”
But while the move is certainly symbolic, there are questions about whether it’s also substantive….