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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2021

      1. As a whittled down reconciliation bill is in final negotiations, it's worth asking "what's the deal with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema?" An urgent question not now but for the forseeable future since they'll set the limits on what Democrats can do.pic.twitter.com/IKFKB4Pl0A

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2021

      2. Manchin is legible in way that Sinema isn't: he's just a plain old conservative Democrat, willing to horse trade to get pork in his state in exchange for other things he doesn't like. Since his vote is necessary he has leverage and is using it with frustrating ferocity

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2021

      3. Sinema puzzles people more because she hasn't been upfront about demands and a lot of what she does makes sense politically (evidenced by her sinking poll numbers). Combined with her colorful background (Green Party) & attire, she's presented as a freak. That's a mistake

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2021

      4. The urge to pathologize Sinema is understandable but it's worth paying attention to the incentive structures & systems that have made her bizarre actions logical to her. She's had a pretty meteoric rise & has real ambition, knowing the system with an outsider's cynicism.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2021

      5. The best explanation for Sinema I've seen is that she's modelling herself after John McCain, an easy mistake on her part given how much McCain was lionized by centrists & Washington types. Of course, it's a bet that will likely fail, but it's a sign of ambition.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2021

          6. I spent some time talking with the astute @ryanlcooper about what makes Sinema tick here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-manchins-machinations-and?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= …

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        1. Robinson‏ @Jellybe17802847 22 Oct 2021
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          You kinda have to know where she comes from too. A non-practicing LDS woman choosing to go to BYU is a telling trend. Being a 'maverick' is very consistent through her whole life. It's her identity.

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        1.  🎥_ 🎬  😏  💜 🤎 💛 💚 💙 ♥️‏ @MovieEv 22 Oct 2021
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          sounds like this is her blind spot ...proto-McCain's can't work ...without a heroic war record

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        2. Robinson‏ @Jellybe17802847 22 Oct 2021
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          Right, she's missing out on that whole pow, decades of experience piece.

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        1. Claire, sadistic trans‏ @waitworry 22 Oct 2021
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          wasn't McCain's whole thing was that he was mostly talk and he'd vote with his party after making a bunch of noise? it doesn't work if you actually tank your party's agenda

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        1. A. K. Boo‏ @AKKABlue 22 Oct 2021
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          McCain really worked the media. Remember the tire swing? If you were reading the left blogosphere in the oughts you do. The centerpiece of a party at McCain's house for the press. Sinema isn't doing any of that.

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        2. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 22 Oct 2021
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          If Sinema is trying to be McCain, she doesn't understand how he did it McCain cultivated a maverick image and had a few idiosyncratic policy positions, but backed the GOP on every party-power issue Sinema entire thing is just telling Democrats to suck ithttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1451558906958950401?s=20 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          5. The best explanation for Sinema I've seen is that she's modelling herself after John McCain, an easy mistake on her part given how much McCain was lionized by centrists & Washington types. Of course, it's a bet that will likely fail, but it's a sign of ambition.
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        3. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 22 Oct 2021
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          XLProfessor Retweeted XLProfessor

          Seriously, does anyone remember McCain taking any position on ending the filibuster for SCOTUS to complete the Garland seat-theft? I don't. McCain was through and through a party man. I don't know what Sinema's deal ishttps://twitter.com/XLProfessor/status/1451616475387727897?s=20 …

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          If Sinema is trying to be McCain, she doesn't understand how he did it McCain cultivated a maverick image and had a few idiosyncratic policy positions, but backed the GOP on every party-power issue Sinema entire thing is just telling Democrats to suck it https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1451558906958950401?s=20 …
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