And I’m saying he can’t do it. If he even has proxies try to do this word will get out and New Yorkers will hate him. So will the rest of the country.
Professor, we seem to be talking past each other. You emphasize the agency of Gov. Cuomo, I emphasize the utter impossibility of Democrats down-ballot running with someone who apparently is in early stage of dementia.Imagine debating your General Election opponent for Senate, House, or Dogcatcher - and being challenged to support the election of someone your party nominated for CEO of the US Government - someone who looked confused throughout a presidential debate with President Trump!
I don’t want to exaggerate, but IMHO Biden is fully capable at this point of making utterly unacceptable statements on the biggest political stage. The Democrat Party can ill afford to be represented by someone in his (apparent) condition. My mother (formerly a schoolteacher, and considered the smartest of her seven siblings) was almost as smart as Biden seems now when I took her under my wing for her 5 year Alzheimer’s decline.
I have a hard time believing that any party would actually take that risk. One way or another, IMHO, the the Democrats will find a way to nominate a dark horse. And, pace your comment about “politics downstream from culture,” that dark horse will “need gravitas.” And that maps to being a present or recently retired governor of a high-profile state.