Politico reports that at a Hamptons fundraiser last Saturday, Cuomo told his well-heeled supporters that, contrary to all available evidence, he could win the New York mayoral race as an independent—because he was likely to have the implicit support of President Donald Trump.
The imperative of defeating Mamdani justified the new coalition Cuomo is trying to create of his die-hard loyalists (who are Democrats) with Trump Republicans.
Some of that latter group might be tempted to back Curtis Sliwa, the actual GOP nominee in the race. Cuomo told these donors, “We can minimize [the Sliwa] vote, because he’ll never be a serious candidate. And Trump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani. And you’ll be wasting your vote on Sliwa.” Cuomo went on to emphasize that he’d be a mayor who could find common ground with Trump:
Continuing your metaphor…
You have to survive chemo in order for it to kill the cancer. It’s equally killing you, you’re just hoping it kills the cancer before you die and then you’re praying you’re still strong enough to recover. Many people don’t, especially if they start from a compromised position, which we are.
I think relying on chemo alone here will ultimately end poorly. People need to be looking for other solutions and advocating LOUDLY about the negative effects that chemo is having if they hope to survive it.
And certainly ignoring the dangers of chemo and not trying to care for the damages it’s causing, is a sure fire way to die. You’re just speeding up the process of death, which I think is exactly what we’ve been watching with the Democratic Party since the end of Trump’s last term and even before.
We need alternative therapies, you can advocate for conjunctive therapies but arguing to just rely on chemo at this stage is political suicide. We’re not going to make it. And those stuck in their traditional, conservative and tribalism thinking are only speeding up the process of organ failure.
We need to be proactively looking for solutions, not relying on “it’s the best we’ve got”. We have to fight cancer. And that requires a whole approach not a single, potentially lethal, method road-blocking all others.
(PS— if anything the Dems should be learning that if they refuse to accept a shift to the left in candidates and policy (Bernie, Mamdani and socialist democrats etc.) they’re done. Not that voters have to turn into republicans because we’re too stupid to do anything else.)