This is a guy who wrote a book about his leadership in the covid pandemic during the covid pandemic. That's like Churchill writing his memoir of World War II during The Blitz.
We ought to have a culture where someone who behaves like this is laughed out of the building.
Politics is nasty. Full stop.
My only TIL that I can offer: Everyone should run for office. Any office. At least once.
Once you decide to play the game -- play to win -- every thing makes perfect sense.
Not to excuse it, in any way. It's just that folk theories aren't even wrong. So people get worked up about the wrong stuff. There will always be devils doing bad stuff.
What should we do about them?
(Haven't started Caro's LBJ biographies yet. I've gleaned that LBJ makes Moses look like a middleweight.)
Like many other officials during this period, his frequent press conferences were nothing but ego satisfying spectacles.
Cuomo is a silly caricature of what the rest of the country think of when they poke fun at New Yorkers: vain, aggressive, crooked, loudmouth bully.
Also, his appearance and mannerisms make him seem like a character from the Sopranos or a Scorsese movie. It is hilarious. He is just so obviously full of shit.
It would be like if the Governor of Minnesota acted and spoke like someone from the Movie “Fargo”.
To be clear, I'm not defending Cuomo. What's going on now with the leaders of the democratic party is exhibit A in the case for the difference in how the two parties handle bad behavior by one of their own (e.g. the president calling on him to step down). Comments like yours are exhibit B -- a stunning lack of awareness at best; rank hypocrisy at worst.
And you seem to be forgetting the existence of a one Governor Jesse Ventura!
I thought I should make the comment from the sibling poster more explicit.
Some of us do, but the partisan politics have blinded many. We can't even agree on basic things any more, like supporting the Iraq war should be a disqualification for either party at this point. People keep supporting these liar, fraud, war criminal types.
Trump campaigned on how dumb Afghanistan and Iraq are and promised to remove troops.