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   From: democrats.suck@nytimes.com   
      
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   > Democrats conveniently ignored their assaults on her in restrooms.   
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   Well played, Democrats.   
      
   You took the first person in your party to win a U.S. Senate   
   seat in Arizona in 30 years and turned her into an independent.   
      
   You required – no, demanded – that she march in lock step with   
   every U.S. senator with Democratic offices in Manhattan and   
   Boston and San Francisco.   
      
   There’s only one way to play Brand D, you said. You must be   
   liberal to a fault. You must spend to the hilt. You must   
   genuflect to every Gen Z inanity that pops out of TikTok.   
      
   And you must never, never compromise with Republicans.   
      
   What a delight it was to watch the most partisan Democrats on   
   Friday jam the electric cables into their ears and turn into   
   porcupines.   
      
   SINEMA DID WHAT!   
      
   If you could keep up with all the frothing blue-checks and their   
   F-bombs, the entertainment was off the charts.   
      
   Democrats claim tolerance, but they aren't   
   The Democratic base loves to flaunt its tolerance for every   
   letter of the LGBTQ alphabet, every race and ethnicity, every   
   gender on the spectrum from non-binary to demi-girl, but the   
   moment any of these people stray from the liberal orthodoxy they   
   must be burned at the stake.   
      
   These Democrats don’t care how you identify, so long as they   
   control your minds.   
      
   Another view:Sen. Kyrsten Sinema just stuck it to Democrats   
      
   Well, they didn’t control Sinema, who is about as diverse a   
   package as you’ll ever find. She was Code Pink, she was Green   
   Party, she is bisexual, she is a friend to immigrants, she was   
   Mormon-raised with military siblings. She’s an Ironman   
   triathlete who takes gigglish delight in eccentric fashion.   
      
   She would seem everything the modern Democratic Party   
   represents, except for one colossal shortcoming.   
      
   She thinks for herself.   
      
   Be obedient? That's not Sinema's style   
      
   If you are a U.S. Senator with a D after your name, you are   
   expected to vote for trillions of dollars of spending on the   
   slimmest of governing majorities – one vote.   
      
   This means you are spending trillions of American taxpayer   
   dollars solely on Democratic Party priorities.   
      
   If you are a Democrat who thinks maybe the other half of America   
   should have a little say in the way you’re spending their money,   
   you must be shunned. You must be destroyed.   
      
   The Democratic orthodoxy also demands that all of their U.S.   
   senators vote to remove the legislative filibuster. When Sinema   
   took a longer view and warned that Democrats will one day be in   
   the minority and might appreciate filibuster protection, she was   
   skinned alive.   
      
   Kyrsten Sinema has been one of the most vilified Washington   
   politicians in the last quarter-century because she believes   
   Arizonans didn’t send her to Washington to play cigarette girl   
   to Chuck Schumer’s pinstripes.   
      
   Democrats like their senators, even women senators, obsequious   
   and obedient, and that’s just not Sinema’s style.   
      
   Sinema isn't the only one tired of groupthink   
   She’s ferociously independent, as her entire life attests. But   
   she’s also good natured and decent, and will not engage in that   
   favorite Washington sport of knifing your rivals. She doesn’t   
   sling mud. She makes an effort to get along with people who come   
   to Washington with different lifestyles and different values and   
   different politics.   
      
   Like her party faithful she preaches tolerance. Unlike them she   
   also practices it.   
      
   She proved that working with Republicans she could pass major   
   initiatives on infrastructure, on guns and microchips. But she   
   wasn’t going to blink on the filibuster so her party could pack   
   the Supreme Court and create even greater division in a country   
   already boiling over with conflict.   
      
   So, the Democrats started raising money to defeat her in the   
   2024 Democratic primary.   
      
   She could read the horizon and chose to exercise her options.   
      
   She is leaving the Democratic Party and its group think and its   
   cult-like conformity for the warmer plains of intellectual   
   freedom.   
      
   And she is not alone.   
      
   The ranks of independents in this country are growing because   
      
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