Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace as governor to avoid being impeached before being soundly rejected by voters twice this year when he ran for mayor of New York City, is not going gently into that good night.
Across two excruciating hours on Monday morning, Cuomo and his inconstant ally, former Governor David Paterson, discussed the election on John Catsimatidis’s radio station. Listeners tuning in to hear new analysis or insight born of a little distance from Election Day were disappointed.
At a plodding pace, intermittently interrupted by musical cues signaling the need to cut to personal injury lawyer commercials, the two men relitigated the election, agreeing with each other that all the points they made during Cuomo’s campaign that failed to persuade voters—free buses are a pipe dream, taxing the rich is folly, the city is teetering on the edge of a crime crisis for which more police are the only solution—were actually correct.
They agreed that Cuomo should have won, but for a bunch of reasons that don’t really signify anything; that the man voters preferred to Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani, is a panderer selling a policy program of “no classes, free pizza on Friday;” that Mamdani doesn’t have a mandate, because lots of people voted for Cuomo. Further consensus: Mamdani was good at TikTok, but his policies don’t make sense. They will drive the rich and the middle class from New York. Cuomo would have won, but for the enormous ego of Curtis Sliwa, who embarrassed himself.
As the old saw goes, “It is always 2 dumb bitches telling each other ‘exactlyyyyy.'”Â
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