One other huge endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it solely price $959 million in tax breaks.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When making an attempt to make sense of sophisticated occasions, we have now to just accept that we’ll in all probability by no means know precisely what induced what—or to what diploma. The information will at all times be murky. That mentioned, we will make affordable assumptions about causality primarily based on widespread sense, significantly if we’re cautious of politicians and pundits making an attempt to drive their private pastime horses into the race. Although not foolproof, you’ll typically do effectively to restrict your hypothesis to the easy and apparent—if these issues are sufficient to clarify what you’re seeing.
The first focus of dialogue across the race has been ideological. Based mostly on numerous headlines and opinion items, you may get the impression that free bus rides and a few modest hire management symbolize the ultimate levels of the nice Marxist revolution. The second-biggest theme has been ethnic and demographic, regardless of little proof exhibiting these elements as main drivers. Commentary has additionally spent quite a lot of time insisting that Mamdani tells us one thing essential about nationwide political tendencies—regardless of New York Metropolis’s lengthy historical past of being a beast of its personal.
As with so many main political tales, the NYC mayor’s race has primarily been an excuse for folks to make arguments they already needed to make. We’ve seen this from each the left and the best. We’ve additionally seen—virtually fully from the professional–Andrew Cuomo crowd—plenty of “it’s probably not concerning the looking, is it?” assume items. These virtually inevitably come from pro-establishment varieties (with The New York Occasions, after all, looming giant) who’re determined to speak about something apart from the institution’s accountability for pushing this strolling embarrassment onto the voters of the nation’s largest metropolis.
(I’m contractually obliged at this level to remind everybody that there are extra Angelenos than New Yorkers, however since we’re particularly speaking about cities right here, NYC does maintain the crown.)
If we put apart the pastime horses and the disingenuous arguments and restrict ourselves to issues which are virtually actually hurting Andrew Cuomo, what will we provide you with?
It says Cuomo went to a senior heart however apparently they don’t know what number of casualties there have been but
— Level Clean Sandwich Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
He’s a disgraced and scandal-ridden former governor. His loss of life toll throughout COVID would usually be sufficient to finish a political profession. His historical past of sexual harassment is so lengthy and well-documented it has its personal Wikipedia web page. His {qualifications} for each governor and mayor appear largely restricted to being the son of a well-known father. (Query for present and former New Yorkers within the viewers: how well-loved and even remembered is Mario Cuomo? So far as I recall, he was greatest identified for teasing the press about presidential runs, however again in Arkansas we didn’t comply with New York State politics all that carefully.)
His marketing campaign technique appears modeled after the scene with Sideshow Bob within the area of rakes.
His shows of entitlement…
and incompetence
Omg 😭
— starmanjr.bsky.social (@starmanjr.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
have been beautiful even by nepo-baby requirements.
Plus, he simply comes off as a racist asshole.
Andrew
Cuomo’s marketing campaign simply posted — and shortly deleted — this AI-generated
advert depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”Incorporates a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser,
a trafficker, a drug vendor, and a drunk driver all declaring assist
for Mamdani.— Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
By comparability, Mamdani is charming, personable, and has run a powerful, sure-footed marketing campaign. There’s nothing mysterious about him being forward within the polls, nothing that requires convoluted explanations or shut readings of the political and analytical tea leaves, no want for 10,000 phrases on what this says about Individuals’ attitudes towards socialism or youth and even Trump. Simply the other.
As talked about in a earlier submit:
There’s an exaggerated (however
not all that exaggerated) account of the loss of life of Rasputin that goes
one thing like this: the controversial monk was, throughout the house of a
few hours, poisoned, shot, bludgeoned, shot once more, after which dumped into
an icy Russian River the place he drowned.
There’s a corollary to the well-known definition of reports as “man bites canine”: uncommon occasions benefit protection.
The identical may be mentioned for surprising or seemingly unlikely occasions. We’d say it’s not information that Rasputin died; it could’ve been information if he had survived. Identical goes for Cuomo.
