If you think a guy who supports terrorists who *rape women to death* doesn't have some dark sexual assault skeletons in his own closet I have a bridge to sell you.
It’s everything everyone hates about the Democratic Party manifested in one election contest:
It also bears repeating that Cuomo isn’t just a bad person, he’s a bad Democrat. He basically handed control of the state legislature for YEARS to the Republican Party with his endorsement of the centrist faction who were republicans in all but name. This is the party leadership pulling out all of the stops just to prevent even the possibility of moving to the left economically and no longer making billionaire donor needs paramount.
Rebecca Traister wrote this article about Cuomo's dysfunctional reign in Albany just before he was forced to resign. It demonstrates Cuomo's deeply shitty personality and politics. The money quote:
"they [Cuomo and Trump] are “the same person” but for “two major exceptions: Fred Trump was Donald Trump’s father, and Mario Cuomo was Andrew Cuomo’s father.”
If the likely alternative was a sane, moderate or at least lawful GOP, I’d be just fine saying screw this broken mess of a Democratic Party, filled with rot and defeatism, unable to decide what it is or fight for what’s right. Let it die and arise again with new leadership focused on something bigger than their own jobs. Clean it all out.
But here the alternative is the GOP, a sick cult that if it gets its way will destroy this country and kill millions. And that fact keeps the Democrats on life support. Much as I despise them they get my vote regularly.
Abandoning Cuomo is a no brainer—not just for moral reasons (hate to say it but the “principles over power” choices of Cheney and Kinziger are the exception rather than the rule) but he also mismanaged the state far worse than a replacement level Democrat (which says a lot because it’s NY where the Democrats are particularly inept). Yet these power obsessed old boys network “my pals over all else” types would rather sully themselves backing him than elevate any of a host of choices. Just flush the gang out and retool the party.
The feckless Democrats are (almost) as bad as their Republican counterparts. Democrats announcing they're the party of integrity while having none (except for a precious few). Pretty easy to see why Congress is so helpless. It's all about staying in office, getting insider tips to get rich, on both sides of the aisle. In the past Mr. Robinson has argued that Obama, for example, needed a functioning government which moved him (or kept him) to the center. I fully disagree. The Democrats haven't pushed a progressive candidate since Truman. Even Ike was to the left of the current Democratic crop.
Personnel are the platform and the policy. The next mayor defines their term based on who they surround themselves with. I think Democrats should be pretty worried about their national future when their preferred candidate's former personnel rightfully run away from him like the plague.
I think their flakiness especially radiates considering you can rank plenty of other candidates than Mamdani or Cuomo. They're just clinging on the same old party strategies. Bad moves all around.
Though I will say, if we have people who do what Cuomo does and *they do not get punished by voters* and in fact gets rewarded, the perverse incentives win out in the end. If Cuomo's misdeeds are a red line then people need to show it.
In addition they need to show it beyond "Democrats must be perfect, Republicans only need excuses." Now I am confident that maybe New Yorkers can do the right thing if pushed; after all they stopped Anthony "Millstone" Weiner's attempted comeback.
One last thing, this opposition needs to happen with Newsom; that's ANOTHER set of perverse incentives with how he is running. Where are the Internet faves to head him off at the pass?
Andrew Cuomo is another piece of garbage masquerading as a human being. When will the electorate vote for something other than these self interested politicians
"He is a democratic socialist who too often ignores the unavoidable trade-offs of governance. He favors rent freezes that could restrict housing supply and make it harder for younger New Yorkers and new arrivals to afford housing. He wants the government to operate grocery stores, as if customer service and retail sales were strengths of the public sector. He minimizes the importance of policing."
I lived in NYC for 41 years and I'm 62. I just left because I can't afford it. NYC is unaffordable for the people who serve the wealthy, who do those with money think is going to care for their children, clean their homes? The people who cannot afford to live there do those jobs. I saw the writing on the wall and am so damn glad I will not HAVE to vote for Cuomo in the general after he wins the primary. It was the same with Adams, didn't like him at all, still had to vote for him over the insane Republican. NYC is going to maintain its tradition of electing the worst mayors possible.
If you think a guy who supports terrorists who *rape women to death* doesn't have some dark sexual assault skeletons in his own closet I have a bridge to sell you.
It’s everything everyone hates about the Democratic Party manifested in one election contest:
It also bears repeating that Cuomo isn’t just a bad person, he’s a bad Democrat. He basically handed control of the state legislature for YEARS to the Republican Party with his endorsement of the centrist faction who were republicans in all but name. This is the party leadership pulling out all of the stops just to prevent even the possibility of moving to the left economically and no longer making billionaire donor needs paramount.
Rebecca Traister wrote this article about Cuomo's dysfunctional reign in Albany just before he was forced to resign. It demonstrates Cuomo's deeply shitty personality and politics. The money quote:
"they [Cuomo and Trump] are “the same person” but for “two major exceptions: Fred Trump was Donald Trump’s father, and Mario Cuomo was Andrew Cuomo’s father.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-cuomo-misconduct-allegations.html
If the likely alternative was a sane, moderate or at least lawful GOP, I’d be just fine saying screw this broken mess of a Democratic Party, filled with rot and defeatism, unable to decide what it is or fight for what’s right. Let it die and arise again with new leadership focused on something bigger than their own jobs. Clean it all out.
But here the alternative is the GOP, a sick cult that if it gets its way will destroy this country and kill millions. And that fact keeps the Democrats on life support. Much as I despise them they get my vote regularly.
Abandoning Cuomo is a no brainer—not just for moral reasons (hate to say it but the “principles over power” choices of Cheney and Kinziger are the exception rather than the rule) but he also mismanaged the state far worse than a replacement level Democrat (which says a lot because it’s NY where the Democrats are particularly inept). Yet these power obsessed old boys network “my pals over all else” types would rather sully themselves backing him than elevate any of a host of choices. Just flush the gang out and retool the party.
As a non-New Yorker, it is shocking and embarrassing that the Dems didn't get behind a fresh-faced normie. There is a complete leadership void.
is something wonky with substack?
Looking forward to a wild three or four-way mayoral race in the fall!
Looking forward to a wild three or four-way mayoral race in the fall!
Looking forward to a wild three or four-way mayoral race in the fall!
Looking forward to a wild three or four-way mayoral race in the fall!
The feckless Democrats are (almost) as bad as their Republican counterparts. Democrats announcing they're the party of integrity while having none (except for a precious few). Pretty easy to see why Congress is so helpless. It's all about staying in office, getting insider tips to get rich, on both sides of the aisle. In the past Mr. Robinson has argued that Obama, for example, needed a functioning government which moved him (or kept him) to the center. I fully disagree. The Democrats haven't pushed a progressive candidate since Truman. Even Ike was to the left of the current Democratic crop.
Personnel are the platform and the policy. The next mayor defines their term based on who they surround themselves with. I think Democrats should be pretty worried about their national future when their preferred candidate's former personnel rightfully run away from him like the plague.
I think their flakiness especially radiates considering you can rank plenty of other candidates than Mamdani or Cuomo. They're just clinging on the same old party strategies. Bad moves all around.
Though I will say, if we have people who do what Cuomo does and *they do not get punished by voters* and in fact gets rewarded, the perverse incentives win out in the end. If Cuomo's misdeeds are a red line then people need to show it.
In addition they need to show it beyond "Democrats must be perfect, Republicans only need excuses." Now I am confident that maybe New Yorkers can do the right thing if pushed; after all they stopped Anthony "Millstone" Weiner's attempted comeback.
One last thing, this opposition needs to happen with Newsom; that's ANOTHER set of perverse incentives with how he is running. Where are the Internet faves to head him off at the pass?
Slightly OT, but one of my all time favorite moments of "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!":
Peter Sagal: "New York Representative Anthony Weiner got in trouble this week for showing his what?"
Paula Poundstone: "His weiner!"
looooooooool
Dems once again prove their cowardice. Sick of it.
Andrew Cuomo is another piece of garbage masquerading as a human being. When will the electorate vote for something other than these self interested politicians
"He is a democratic socialist who too often ignores the unavoidable trade-offs of governance. He favors rent freezes that could restrict housing supply and make it harder for younger New Yorkers and new arrivals to afford housing. He wants the government to operate grocery stores, as if customer service and retail sales were strengths of the public sector. He minimizes the importance of policing."
I lived in NYC for 41 years and I'm 62. I just left because I can't afford it. NYC is unaffordable for the people who serve the wealthy, who do those with money think is going to care for their children, clean their homes? The people who cannot afford to live there do those jobs. I saw the writing on the wall and am so damn glad I will not HAVE to vote for Cuomo in the general after he wins the primary. It was the same with Adams, didn't like him at all, still had to vote for him over the insane Republican. NYC is going to maintain its tradition of electing the worst mayors possible.