If you kill a few thousand senior citizens through negligent policymaking and subsequently try to cover it up, that’s considered politically survivable in the current climate. Alleged inappropriate behavior around staffers, however, is a death sentence. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been accused of all these things. While his sexual misconduct and egregious mishandling of COVID-19 are both heinous, they are not equally so. It should not be controversial to assert killing the elderly through incompetence is far more depraved than anything the New York Attorney General has accused the governor of doing to his subordinates.
The public response from the media is currently flipping the moral weight of the two wrongs.
Only after allegations of sexual misconduct against Cuomo emerged last fall did New York State Democrats launch an impeachment inquiry against him, nearly a year after his disastrous public health order forced nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients. Today’s formal accusations of sexual harassment from the attorney general seem to have reignited calls for impeachment. His nursing home scandals, meanwhile.........
