Is it secure?
Sure, Chris Cillizza. It’s now secure so that you can mock Andrew Cuomo on #MeToo points however maybe not a lot on his dealing with of nursing house COVID-19 sufferers. Up till not less than a month in the past, Cillizza’s CNN Community was additionally concealing the coverup by New York governor Cuomo of the nursing house deaths.
Though Cillizza, after months of stonewalling on the topic, now feels secure sufficient to go after Cuomo it’s simple to neglect that final 12 months he adored Cuomo and his COVID routine. In fact, his quite gentle contact mockery of Cuomo stays principally confined to the #MeToo which you’ll see in his Wednesday missive, “Andrew Cuomo lays out his survival blueprint.”
Principally Cillizza mocked Cuomo’s sensitive feely excuses by itemizing them. Not precisely a tough hitting exposé which is comprehensible when contemplating Cillizza’s previous glorification of Cuomo equivalent to could be seen on this embarrassing fanboy video final April.
A month earlier than, on March 24, 2020, Cillizza additionally carried out a public show of awe in “Everybody must see Andrew Cuomo’s inspiring phrases on the struggle in opposition to coronavirus.”
“New York loves all of you. Black and white and brown and Asian and brief and tall and homosexual and straight. New York loves everybody. That is why I like New York. It all the time has, it all the time will. And on the finish of the day, my pals, even when it’s a lengthy day, and this can be a lengthy day, love wins. All the time. And it’ll win once more by way of this virus. Thanks.”
That’s an elected official standing up and reminding us that we have been in unhealthy conditions earlier than and the way in which we have all the time persevered is by sticking collectively, keep in mind that all of us have much more in frequent than we’ve got that differentiates us. That solely by understanding we’re all on this collectively — wholesome, sick, outdated, younger, well being care employee, politician, no matter, will we get by way of it. That there’s all the time a lightweight on the finish of the tunnel even when we won’t all the time see it. And that getting there will not be simple, however we are going to get there.
That’s management. That’s empathy in motion. That’s what we’d like.
In fact, no public gushing over Andrew Cuomo by Cillizza is full with out the compulsory slam in regards to the Large Dangerous Orange Man.
Trump cares deeply about Trump. What he perceives nearly as good for him is what he’s inclined to do. Andrew Cuomo, in his phrases on Tuesday, is providing one other path: To imagine in all of us, realizing that by defending the least amongst us we’re exhibiting ourselves and the world how America fights and wins these hardest of battles.
The distinction between the 2 visions is startling.
Sure, the distinction between the 2 is definitely startling however I do not assume Cillizza meant it as a praise for Trump on the time.