Cuomo vs. Cuomo: Which Path Should Pro-Democracy Forces Take?

We need to understand that the center is not always in the middle.

Nov 04, 2025

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“Mario Cuomo went into public life to represent communities against public officials like Andrew Cuomo,” veteran Democratic political consultant and speechwriter David Kusnet said to me last week. As the author of the first biography of Mario Cuomo, I judged that one-sentence analysis to be spot on.

I have long thought of the…

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A guest post by

Robert S. McElvaine

Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”