When the music finally stopped and Kyrsten Sinema laid down her baton, the Democratic base was furious.

Sinema announced last week she would leave the U.S. Senate. The Democrats and their media cheerleaders went online and screamed that she’s a scoundrel.

Even now.

Sinema is a turncoat. Sinema is a sellout. Sinema is a “singularly arrogant senator.”

Sinema is such a narcissist she undercut the Democratic Party agenda to become the center of attention.

Sinema’s announcement “was an on-brand moment from a politician whose primary consideration and most important constituent has been herself.”

Except, she wasn’t her most important constituent. That actually goes to Big Pharma or the hedge funds or any deep pockets that will one day make her fabulously wealthy.

As a Sinema staffer put it so excellently last week, “Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”

So, the left still hates Kyrsten Sinema.

And guess what?

They still don’t know why.

One doesn’t expect grace these days from either of the two major U.S. political parties, nor even a modicum of self-awareness.

We’re in a moment of hyperpolarization when both parties are battle hardened and extreme.

Except one party doesn’t know it.

The Democrats.

And here is where Sinema was and remains a constant irritant they cannot shake – not even when she’s leaving.

Kyrsten Sinema got into the U.S. Senate, held up a giant mirror and showed the Democratic Party who they really are.

They are a big part of the problem.

She........

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