Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has turned out to be quite the typical politician, firing folks who don’t tell her what she wants to hear.

Case in point? David Duncan, who inconveniently told Hobbs that executing people with lethal injection is achievable but “fundamentally unreliable, unworkable and unacceptably prone to errors.”

The governor won’t hear it. And she unceremoniously got rid of Duncan, the retired U.S. magistrate she tapped to review Arizona’s death penalty process after several botched executions.

Hobbs has said she ended Duncan’s review because she lost confidence, presumably in the effort or Duncan — or both.

More likely, Hobbs is just eager to resume executions because she’ll face a tough reelection in just two years and wants to show her toughness to Donald Trump’s electorate.

Why did she stop executions in the first place?

Well, politics looked a lot different two years ago when she, Attorney General Kris Mayes and other top Democrats got elected.

They were flying high in the........

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