There's something fatally anachronistic about Hochul. Machine politics have so deeply insulated her from ordinary Ds (moderates & progs) that she has no conception of the extraordinary personal investments of time, emotion, money they've made since 2017 to defeat the GOP.
In Hochul world, the Albany carousel still whirls as if it's 2012. Wall Street donors, machine hacks, and 'deal-making' Republicans are her chief collaborators. ActBlue doesn't exist. Indivisible never happened. Trump is guy you can do deals with.
New York City has millions of fired-up partisans from across the ideological spectrum, waiting for a NY leader of integrity and purpose to get behind. Hochul would seem no have conception of, or interest in, their existence or their strength of feeling. They are *in her way.*
This leads to disastrous miscalculations. In Hochul World, satisfying the secret machine bargain underlying the #LaSalle nomination > respecting the wishes of the party base. That might have worked when Cuomo was gov & his IDC gave GOP control of the NY Senate. But not anymore.
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