Byron York’s Daily Memo: Andrew Cuomo s hubris

Then news began to appear about the nursing homes. Had Cuomo actually forced them to admit, or to re-admit, Covid patients? Yes, he had. Had Cuomo forced his administration to lie about it afterward? Yes, he had. Given the terrible toll that Covid took in New York — more than 54,000 deaths in the state so far — Cuomo’s actions were unforgivable.

And yet Cuomo had the sheer gall — chutzpah? something? — to write and publish a book called “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.” And then, as it turned out, the big “leadership lesson” that Cuomo took away from the crisis was that Donald Trump was a bad man — the president was mentioned more than 200 times in the book.

Cuomo’s book sold reasonably well for a brief time, although nowhere near well enough to recoup the $5.1 million Crown paid for it. But then, as the New York Times reported, “its sales flagged as a new wave of coronavirus infections crested over the state and the nation.” And then came the sexual misconduct allegations. Soon, boxes of “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic” were sitting around in warehouses, never to be sold. Nobody wanted to learn Cuomo’s “lessons.”

And then, finally, came the state attorney general’s report, the proximate cause of Cuomo’s resignation. That’s what killed him. But looking back, it seems reasonable to believe that, given what Andrew Cuomo had done, fate, or the gods, or whatever you want to call it, simply would not let him get away with singing his own praises after doing such terrible damage. In the end, Cuomo’s hubris, more than any report from the attorney general, is what brought him down.

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Nice thought but mostly magical thinking. NY’s next governor will probably be worse, as hard as that is to imagine.