And the very thing he and his crew delighted in so much—dehumanizing others for their own advancement and enjoyment—is the thing that brought them down.
Danielle Tcholakian is a freelance reporter in New York City. She tweets at @danielleiat_.
He didn’t resign because he’s seen the light, but because he thinks doing so will allow him to return. Nevertheless, he desisted.
His last line of defense in this game, as he clearly sees it, of he said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said… is to smear women.
Even if he goes, there will only be another Matt Gaetz—until we have a system that forces politicians to finally remember or develop their own senses of shame.
The more he talks, the more obvious it is—and it was pretty obvious already—that he’s an entitled, unpleasant creep.
When dad-in-chief Andrew Cuomo wasn’t telling jokes about his daughter’s boyfriend on TV, he was pressing a woman his daughter’s age and on his payroll to discuss her sex life.
You know what’s a good, easy way to know when your “flirtation” is “unwanted,” governor? When a woman removes your hand from her backside.
The sad truth is that Cuomo’s power in New York State really has been nearly absolute. He doesn’t just watch the watchmen; he picked them!
Yes, Trump’s abysmal public performances left a vacuum that the New York governor has filled ably. But let’s remember the pre-coronavirus Andrew, too.
It’s a wild twist from the political party that effectively stopped attempts to provide health care to all Americans by claiming that to do so would initiate “death panels.”