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Do We Really Want to Cancel Cuomo Without a Trial?
I am delighted to see Cuomo suffer the slings and arrows, which are likely much less than the jerk earned. But doesn’t he truly deserve at least a Kavanaugh-style hearing, before stepping down? We should not be so eager to demand his resignation solely on the word of accusers, lest we befall the same fate in the near future. Haven’t we seen enough throughout history of politically motivated killings, persecutions, and banishments?
I think there is plenty on which to prosecute Cuomo, from gross negligence in the death of seniors, to obstruction of justice for covering his efforts up, to harassment, and sexual charges. But let’s have a hearing and a trial as warranted. Simply demanding his resignation is not a wise path, even if it “feels” like it.
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It makes sense for several reasons:
1- the left has hailed Cuomo and his COVID policies regarding lockdowns. They have invested heavily in the idea that lockdowns worked and Cuomo is the face of this. His policies towards nursing homes has resulted in mass death, and the Democrats can’t have him suddenly looking incompetent.
2- Cuomo’s admin could be facing legal troubles due to the nursing home cover up, which could drag down members of his staff- some of whom have acknowledged a coverup. Getting rid of him might save some other Democrats.
3- liberals have ignored me-too as a movement for more than a year. The sexual allegations are a convenient excuse to remove Cuomo while they try to sweep liberal policy failures under the rug. They can throw a bone to me-too and claim “they didn’t know he was a dirtbag before, but now see how they are keeping the party pure?”
I have a very cynical view of Democrats’ motivations for doing anything, and I assume bad faith motivations on their part by default. Normally, I’m right.
To paraphrase Jonah Goldberg: It is an immutable law that when a politician praises his own performance concerning a pandemic, when he accepts an Emmy award for his kabuki performance before cameras expounding about that pandemic, when he has a book written puffing up his virtues and promoting himself vis-à-vis the pandemic all while causing the deaths of thousands of innocent people, that the Universe at some point will crap on him from a great height.
It’s Karma. He deserves it regardless from where it comes.
This makes sense . . .
Wow. That’s really, really cynical.
But you may very well be right. Yikes.
Also, he has been growing in power and is safe to remove. Whoever is controlling the progressive movement* probably sees his growing power as a threat to their machine. It suits them to show that no one is too big for the commie games of cancel culture, and New York is a safe place to get one of their own to replace him. Someone more malleable and controllable.
* I think it’s the Obama machine controlling the progressive movement though I may be wrong as they might be controlled by someone else. Obama isn’t all that good at this, he was a tool of the machine as much as anyone else in that movement.