Referring to an earlier posting from today —Stories of Manchin and/or Sinema exiting the Democratic Party are very troubling, even if Manchin currently denies that is in his playbook. Yes — on one hand, they will have no influence in the GOP but on the other hand they will be able to accumulate wealth without any pushback from their new associates and isn’t that what guides them these days? Treating them as the enemy when we have no margin for defections is not likely to prove as successful strategy for Democrats.