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Fri Oct 15, 2021, 07:05 PM Oct 2021

5 Theories on What Kyrsten Sinema Wants. Is she just the Glenn Greenwald of senators?

The fate of Joe Biden’s presidency is increasingly subject to the whims of Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Yet as a decision deadline gets closer, the question of just what Sinema wants, and why she wants it, is becoming less and less clear. What kind of deal does she want? Does she want a deal at all? Does she even want a political career?

The Senate’s most peculiar and inscrutable member has inspired numerous theories, not all mutually exclusive. Here are the five most popular.

1. She’s the Glenn Greenwald of senators.

The evidence: Sinema used to hate Democrats and liberals from the left, self-identifying as a socialist and running as a Green Party member. Now she hates them from the right. The consistent theme in her career is a contempt for the hard, unglamorous work of programmatic liberalism.

The counterargument: Unlike Greenwald, between her career as a left-wing liberal-hater from the left and a liberal-hater from the right, she did have a brief stop as a relatively standard-issue Democrat.

Read more: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-does-kirsten-sinema-want-5-theories-independent-democrat-primary.html

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5 Theories on What Kyrsten Sinema Wants. Is she just the Glenn Greenwald of senators? (Original Post) Galraedia Oct 2021 OP
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