ZitatOne of the more interesting news items this week was the revelation that Arizona Democrats were considering a censure vote against Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being too pro-Trump.
Apparently, voting against the president 81% of the time constitutes being a raging right-wing reprobate in today's liberal hive mind.
It is worth noting that the most anti-Obama senator in his last year in office was Richard Shelby, who voted against President Barack Obama 63.9% of the time. That made the most anti-Obama senator far friendlier to the Democrat president than a Democrat who is being threatened with censure for her apostasy.
Shelby supported Obama almost 40% of the time. On average, Senate Republicans opposed Obama's position less than half the time in 2016. Bipartisanship was very much alive and well.
Sinema is not even close to being a moderate, unless you define moderation against how far to the left the Democratic Party has swung. Sinema's sin is voting for David Bernhardt for secretary of the interior, a name unlikely familiar to 99% of Americans. She also voted for William Barr for attorney general and opposes the Democrats' "net neutrality" internet scheme.
But, in today's resistance-minded Democrat party, any sign of compromise is treated as a cardinal sin.