The majority of effective legislators who provide a genuine service to the people they represent probably come in as firebrands set on changing the system.
Most of them do not know how the system works.
Some of them bang their head against the wall until they give up and leave or are voted out.
Others are shaped by the system and learn how to work within it, some faster than others.
If they survive the political tides they master the system and are able to legislate at a master level.
I have never seen immediate success from sharp ideological changes in direction, because a population needs time to ingest new ideas into the general culture.
This small but well known group of swing legislators command attention by being iconoclasts, but they play a dangerous game when it comes time to be reelected because populations are lazy and do not understand complex positions.
She could make this work for her, if she makes it clear to voters that she is "not one of the regular legislators who always vote down party lines".
In Georgia, Governor Brian Kemp managed to walk a line that allowed him to stand clear of Trump without disavowing Trump.
It's weird math.
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