Note: There (probably) won’t be a new post next week (Friday, August 20). I’ll be busy learning how to save America. Be kind to someone who needs it with the extra time. Cheers! –DAK
Under the glare of a looming impeachment, precipitated by Attorney General Letitia James’ report of Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment of 11 women, Cuomo transformed before our eyes from beloved Emmy winner to “the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing.” And it all happened faster than you could say, “Cuomo is responsible for the deaths of more than 15,000 nursing home residents from COVID-19 because of his incompetent-at-best-and-criminal-at-worst handling of the pandemic.”
What happened? Why did the preventable, tragic deaths of 15,000 elderly New Yorkers not sink Cuomo, but the allegations of 11 women about sexual misconduct on his part did?
Russell Berman of the far-left Atlantic thinks he knows. He lays it out in plain English in the subtitle of his article, “Why Cuomo Finally Resigned”: “Democrats hold their leaders to higher standards than Republicans do. When they abandoned the New York governor, he had no choice but to quit.” Of course, this is self-serving, virtue-signaling pablum. Utter nonsense. On August 24, Cuomo will be replaced by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat. And after that, deep-blue New York state will elevate another Democrat to the governor’s mansion as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow. The kingdom is secure.
But this is an alluring maneuver. Crowing that your “side” polices its members’ wrongdoing better than the other “side” does when there is absolutely no downside to doing so is entirely expected. Would you be surprised if a poll showed 100 percent of children think having candy for dinner is a good idea?
Similar logic is at play here.
Read the rest at American Greatness.
Interesting perspective! Women do wield a lot of power within the modern Democratic Party. No doubt about it. On the other hand, the Dems nominated an old white guy who stood accused of being grabby (or worse) with countless women and girls. There are limits to their feminism! But then they get to choose which allegations "matter", as always.