New York governor Andrew Cuomo says that America was "Never that great," and he's entitled to that view, but it would be interesting to know where the U.S. ranks in his personal list of great nations.
It's amusing to imagine what the late Mario Cuomo, who so frequently praised America for the singular place that it is-"The greatest nation in the only world we know"-would have to say, especially in private, about his impulsive son's latest outburst.
Cuomo delivered his caustic observation at a bill-signing ceremony cum campaign pep rally on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and it might be a mistake to take it for much beyond what it was: just another rhetorical drive-by shooting aimed at Donald Trump, the bête noire of New York Democratic politics.
"We're not going to make America great again," Cuomo said.
At best, Andrew Cuomo's crack was an uninspired knockoff of his father's singular statement of principle and purpose.
The remark drove Cuomo from that year's gubernatorial race and caused so much discord within the state Democratic Party that it might well have ended his career.
It's hard to imagine that someone who has so often praised America for its singularly nurturing acceptance of legal immigrants, his grandparents Andrea and Immaculata Cuomo among them, believes that the nation "Was never that great." Which raises a question: How much self-abasement is a candidate riding at over 60 percent in the polls willing to exhibit in exchange for just a few more votes? In the end, it's all about character.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/andrew-cuomo-16114.html
It's amusing to imagine what the late Mario Cuomo, who so frequently praised America for the singular place that it is-"The greatest nation in the only world we know"-would have to say, especially in private, about his impulsive son's latest outburst.
Cuomo delivered his caustic observation at a bill-signing ceremony cum campaign pep rally on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and it might be a mistake to take it for much beyond what it was: just another rhetorical drive-by shooting aimed at Donald Trump, the bête noire of New York Democratic politics.
"We're not going to make America great again," Cuomo said.
At best, Andrew Cuomo's crack was an uninspired knockoff of his father's singular statement of principle and purpose.
The remark drove Cuomo from that year's gubernatorial race and caused so much discord within the state Democratic Party that it might well have ended his career.
It's hard to imagine that someone who has so often praised America for its singularly nurturing acceptance of legal immigrants, his grandparents Andrea and Immaculata Cuomo among them, believes that the nation "Was never that great." Which raises a question: How much self-abasement is a candidate riding at over 60 percent in the polls willing to exhibit in exchange for just a few more votes? In the end, it's all about character.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/andrew-cuomo-16114.html
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