Cuomo’s Fall Will Only Accelerate New York’s Decline

He’s a power-mad sleaze bucket, but he has kept his state from becoming another California.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a coronavirus vaccination site in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., March 22, 2021.

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New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, is a weakened political animal. And, as a conservative, I have mixed feelings about it.

I’m already starting to miss the good old days when Andrew Cuomo was announcing that people like me “have no place in the state of New York” because I’m pro-life or object to his bizarre “SAFE Act,” which placed onerous and hard-to-interpret restrictions on rifles that are almost never involved in serious crimes. One of his former aides, remarking to The New Yorker on Cuomo’s manifest unlikability, said, “He was born for social distancing.” He is a weirdo who seems to have no life beyond politics, evidenced by the fact that he has no residence besides the governor’s mansion. The man wrote a self-congratulatory book about his own leadership even as he was hiding the enormous death toll that his COVID-19 policies wrought on the state. If this is the era of believing women, one must believe that he abuses and creeps out female staffers.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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