Experts Weigh In on What Led to Sen. Sinema Leaving the Democratic Party

News Analysis
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement last week of her decision to make an official exit from the Democratic Party and register as an independent results from a number of disparate factors, including the direction of the party before, during, and since the midterm elections, and the prospects for an independent candidate in a state with a highly idiosyncratic political and demographic composition, experts on U.S. politics and elections have told The Epoch Times.
On one level, her decision to bolt is clearly a sign of the ideological hardening of the party, its increasing servility to its radical base, and its growing unwillingness to entertain bipartisan and heterodox stances, viewpoints, and policies, according to one expert….}