Despite his current race against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, you’d be excused for thinking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is running against President Donald Trump.
On Sunday, Cuomo said of the President: “Every neighborhood has one, the scared, small man in the house with the high fence and the shiny mailbox, afraid of people who are different.”
At First Baptist Church of Crown Heights, Cuomo called Trump’s vision for the country “a frightening portrait,” saying the President’s desired wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is meant to send the message: “We need to keep them out […] they are the poor people, they are the people who speak a different language, they are the people who worship a different god, they are the people who have a different sexual orientation.”
“If a woman dares to speak up, then King Trump attacks her,” the governor said, before detailing Trump’s attacks on Omarosa Manigault Newman, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina.
“He so emboldened the white supremacists, that when they showed up to rally in Charlottesville, they didn’t even bother wearing a hood!” he said of the “Divider in Chief.”
“I believe this President is un-American,” Cuomo said separately. “I believe it’s un-American to give cover to white supremacists. I believe it’s un-American to deny people’s basic right to health care. I believe it’s un-American to deny a young person’s dream to come to college. I believe it’s un-American to discriminate against a person because of sexual orientation. I believe its un-American to take babies out of the arms of their mothers because they want to come into this country. I believe it’s un-American to put children in cages. I believe its un-American to lock up refugees.”
“Mr. Trump,” he said, “I’ve known you for 30 years you may be a slick salesman who fooled a lot of people in this country, but you didn’t fool me and you didn’t fool a lot of New Yorkers.”
The most recent back-and-forth between Cuomo and the President began on Wednesday last week, when Cuomo brought up Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan and said America “was never that great. We have not reached greatness.” Trump said the governor was having a meltdown and urged him to resign.
“Of course America is great and of course America has always been great,” Cuomo said Friday.
Not a big Cuomo fan… but this is impossible to disagree with
He’s running.
I’m a big Cuomo fan. I think if he enters the primary he will show Democrats how to stick it to Trump both in terms of political skill and also in terms of defending our values as Democrats and Americans.
Demonstrably true, but he already fucked this up. Reflective of the problem facing the party. If you’ve abandoned the idea of economic justice, and are doubling down on identity politics and the culture war, this high wire act is almost impossible. America sucks! One crowd cheers the other protests, then you walk it back and come up with some mealy mouthed bullshit like this, that while true, is just blah blah blah for the purpose of blah blah blah.
PS might add the line about the scared little man behind the high fence around his house. This complete lack of compassion or concern for those outside the identities the party seeks to serve is just as big a reason why we are where we are as white supremacy. Perhaps we can band together to kill this gentleman, or perhaps drive him from the community?
Is he going to apologize for this too?