No longer able to freely abuse anyone he wants

In New York Magazine, Rebecca Traisterwrites,

what we are witnessing, after a year of meteoric rise, is the extraordinary, crashing two-month fall of a man whose power, for a decade, has been almost total.

The brutality that Andrew Cuomo has brought to politics — connected as it has long been to his authority and his ability to take whatever he wants from his staff and his state — has, like his sexualized advances, been drained of a lot of its appeal.

We didn’t know we had an alternative. Now, it seems, we might have many.

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