Democrats lost last week’s election, bigly — but New York Democrats were even more soundly defeated: Everything that Gov. Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James tried to throw at Donald Trump failed to stick.
The good news for Gotham is that the governor seems to have learned a little humility, and is pledging to cooperate with President-elect Trump. Mayor Adams wisely never made an enemy of Trump in the first place.
The bad news is that Hochul’s and Adams’ idea of cooperation is to take lots of federal cash, courtesy of the nation’s taxpayers — when what New Yorkers voted for was not dollars but change.
It’s easy to see last week’s conciliatory remarks from Hochul, in particular, as a refreshing shift in tone.
On Thursday, the governor — after standing with AG James and threatening the president with more “I will fight you” lawfare the day after the election — belatedly realized she’s got to work with this guy, and called Trump to offer congratulations and find common ground on transit funding.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. Nicole is the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, available now.
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