Sinema and Cheney are America's best and brightest politicians

Now, I should probably confess that as an anti-Trump conservative, this is easy for me to say; these two women have (currently) landed in my philosophical sweet spot, as Cheney stood up against the MAGA movement while Sinema is (for now, at least) a bulwark against progressive overreach on spending and rewriting the social contract.

But even if you disagree with their politics, it’s just demonstrably true that these two women are gutsy and courageous.

It used to be that people went rogue when they tried to buck their party leadership. That was hard enough. Today, the leadership and grassroots supporters of both parties are in lockstep, which makes stepping out of line an invitation to a two-front war. On the Republican side, others have tried (and failed) to wage this kind of battle. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ civil war is just getting started, so Sinema is the pioneer, taking most of the arrows.

The difference, though, is that Cheney and Sinema are doing it with style and, so far, getting away with it.