Governor Kathy Hochul’s combative tone taken after President Trump’s victory was a bad move for New York.
One would hope that the governor would have acknowledged the message being sent by the average American voter around the nation that was rejecting the Biden agenda that raised inflation, interest rates, crime in the street, and wars around the world.
Yes, it’s true that New York went handily for Harris, but Trump’s numbers were higher than ever in this very blue state. A message was being sent. Rather than being somewhat humble and acknowledging the residents’ frustrations, she and Attorney General Letitia James doubled down on their anti-Trump hostility.
Hochul’s 2022 gubernatorial primary opponent, Congressman Tom Suozzi, was astute enough to note that the Democrats have to tone down their message. He started by swatting the party’s illogical and hostile attitude that biological males should be able to compete against females in sports.
It would be nice to hear Democrats also say that they’re going to change their tune on open borders and forcing us to buy electric cars and stoves that we don’t want.
It would be nice as well to hear the governor say that she will pressure crazy district attorneys, such as Alvin Bragg, who have vilified police officers while emboldening violent criminals to roam the streets.
Instead, Hochul puts her hand on her ears and her eyes and pretends that it’s the voters who got it wrong, and that she has an ethical duty to protect the people of New York from the policies that prevailed this past election.
For many years, New York has been represented by the most powerful United States senator, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and the most powerful Democrat in the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
It meant squat.
Neither of these high-positioned Democrats lifted a finger to help shield New York from the flood of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who overwhelmed our state. Nor did they do anything to intervene against the antisemites assaulting Jewish students on campus.
With friends like these, who needs enemies? Hochul and James perceive the newly elected president as their enemy. Perhaps if they sought a partnership for New York, the native New Yorker president-elect would reciprocate in kind.