I was never besotted by Andrew Cuomo. I was never a “Cuomosexual.” I never thought having him replace Biden on the ticket made any sense. And the allegations against him are credible. He deserves to pay some kind of a price for his mistakes.
But the punishment has to fit the crime. The acts of which he is accused were offensive, but did not involve assaults or employment retaliation. The harm was relatively minimal. Are we really expected to use any bandwidth on condemning this kind of behavior in an era in which Donald Trump gets away scot-free? Do we really want to hand the right a stick with which to beat the left, but not its erring own?
The polls indicate that New Yorkers don’t think Cuomo should resign, but do not particularly want him to run for a fourth term. That strikes me as about right.