Reactions have been mixed as to the significance of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s 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 an op-ed in the Arizona Republic that she was leaving the Democrats because she’s fed up with what she described as 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….