Andrew Cuomo is right. The public is better than Republican politicians.
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
April 30, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. EDT
You’d be forgiven for losing faith in the American experiment in democracy after voters in 2016 picked an unfit narcissist for president over a competent, experienced politician. (Then again, Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote.) Still, the public’s reaction to the novel coronavirus is enough to restore one’s hope that after exhausting every other option, the people sometimes get it right when it really matters.
Consider the polling: Overwhelmingly, the voters grasp the seriousness of the pandemic, trust health professionals and governors over President Trump, are concerned about lifting lockdown restrictions too quickly and understand the coronavirus pandemic will not be over anytime soon. When their lives and livelihoods are at stake and politics becomes more than a tribal exercise, voters are capable of absorbing information and making rational choices.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), whose daily rants against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for recommending bankruptcy over federal funding for states and cities have become must-see TV for Democratic ad makers, observed on Wednesday, “This is now turning into a political brawl on state and local funding. More and more, some of the elected officials in Washington are saying they’re against it. They’re led by Senator Mitch McConnell . . . who makes it blatantly political.” (Those elected officials include Trump, in at least one tweet, but the president’s actual position, if he has one, is unknown.)
Cuomo launched into a moral evisceration of the majority leader after restating that New York is a net contributor to the federal treasury while Kentucky and other Republican-led states are net takers:
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