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Gov. Cuomo, Don’t Emulate Trump. Do The Right Thing.
An open letter to New York’s version of Ronald Reagan
Governor Cuomo, I really liked you. I was proud of how you stood up for New Yorkers, and I daresay most Dems and liberals across the nation took heart at how you refused to allow a future guest of the NY Department of Corrections by the name of Trump to bully you or the people of New York.
But it turns out that you, too, appear to have feet of clay disturbingly similar to those of the Former Guy, the Molester-in-Chief that brought so much shame upon our nation.
Don’t get me wrong. Even given what your administration allegedly did concerning the COVID-19 death toll at nursing homes, in the big picture, your leadership likely saved many more lives than it cost. Your tenure over the past year reminds me strongly of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. You see, when I first joined the Navy in 1981, we were still in the post-Vietnam funk. The military’s morale was abysmal, and those of us on active duty at that time were sure that the Cold War would turn hot any day now, that we’d soon see our cities and military bases turned to radioactive ash (as very nearly happened several times).
By the time Reagan left office — having gotten away with the Iran-Contra scandal (the worst scandal between Vietnam and…
