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Cuomo’s downfall in two words: Hubris and hypocrisy https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cuomo-e2-80-99s-downfall-in-two-words-hubris-and-hypocrisy/ar-AANa0Fy?ocid=uxbndlbing
The first big problem with Cuomo’s defense — and what ultimately made it untenable, just not for the reasons he laid out — was the standard Cuomo set for himself.
On Tuesday he suggested, as he has before, that he was a victim of generational and cultural differences.
“In my mind, I’ve never crossed the line with anyone, but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn,” Cuomo said. “There are generational and cultural shifts that I just didn’t fully appreciate, and I should have no excuses.”
And yet he did make excuses — in the very same sentence. Also left unsaid: the very large role Cuomo played in redrawing those very lines.
The Washington Post’s Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey detailed this better than anybody over the weekend. Leading their story was a telling anecdote from 2019. Cuomo had just signed a workplace anti-discrimination bill, which he said was needed to combat an “ongoing, persistent culture” of abuse. The next day, he asked a female state trooper why she didn’t wear a dress. It was part of what the woman described as a clear and concerted harassment campaign against her, which the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) found to be credible.
But Cuomo’s efforts to claim the moral high ground on this issue and his participation in setting the new standards dated back years before then. To wit:
- In 2013, he introduced a Women’s Equality Act proposal that included banning “sexual harassment in every workplace.”
- Later that year, he suggested the resignations and possible expulsions of two state legislators who had been accused of sexual misconduct.
- In January 2018, he tweeted that “2017 brought a long overdue reckoning where the pervasive poison of workplace sexual harassment was exposed by brave women and men who said this ends now.”
- In March 2018, he said: “We are leading the way forward with the nation’s most comprehensive reform package. This behavior must end.”
- In May 2018, he called for the resignation of then-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) over allegations that Schneiderman choked and hit women. “My personal opinion is that, given the damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out … I do not believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman to continue to serve as attorney general,” Cuomo said.
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Politicians are no strangers to hypocrisy and hubris, but Cuomo was hoist with his own petard more than almost any politician in modern history.
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