Cuomo hid behind a 'good guy' disg uise. Here’s why it almost worked.

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For a lot of people who had watched Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., handle the Covid-19 pandemic, it's been difficult to take in the last few weeks.

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March 20, 2021

For a lot of people who had watched Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., handle the Covid-19 pandemic, it's been difficult to take in the last few weeks. Cuomo's gone from being a hero, almost a savior to some on the left, to just another man. On Friday, yet another woman came forward to accuse the governor of harassing behavior. "There’s no term for the special sting of discovering that the man who convinced you he could assure your safety turns out to be dangerous himself," Liz Plank writes.

"But there is a simple explanation for our naiveté," Plank continues. "In a world filled with a seemingly endless supply of bad guys, we’ve become starved for good guys."

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