Hochul, James put their embarrassing anti-Trump agenda over New York’s needs

As I watched nan tone-deaf, sad-sack comments by Gov. Hochul and authorities Attorney General Letitia James Wednesday, an thought came to mind: Why don’t they conscionable spell full hog and opportunity New York is seceding from nan union?

And why extremity location — state a caller civilian warfare because, well, Donald Trump is going to beryllium president and we don’t want that!

Wawawawa.

Grow up!

There’s nary crying successful politics.

I person seen galore bad performances by nationalist officials, but Hochul and James deed stone bottom.

Their peevishness indicated New York is fresh and eager to rumble pinch nan caller Trump ­administration.

No grace, nary patriotism, only nan crazy-talk presumption that nan worst-case script is inevitable.

Their position is truthful blinkered that they must beryllium getting their clone news from outlets that person a fetish for calling Trump Hitler and informing that he is going to destruct America.

Rare kudos to Kam

By comparison, nan concession reside Vice President Kamala Harris gave was afloat of grace and patriotism.

The last results humiliated her, but still she managed to support it together for 10 minutes and defy immoderate impulse to flash anger and activity revenge.

Of course, Hochul and James besides demanded much money from nan Trump administration.

So first you attack, past opportunity gimme, gimme.

A superb strategy!

Surely Trump will beryllium moved to unfastened nan national purse.

Hochul and James are a two-person wrecking crew.

They person done thing for New York isolated from move it ever person to nan cliff.

Businesses and residents are fleeing their money-grabbing clutches, and they people nan predetermination pinch a puerile defiance.

In a associated release, they announced “a strengthened partnership, including caller dedicated staff, to reside imaginable national ineligible threats to reproductive freedom, weapon information laws, and different cardinal issues.”

Hochul said her agency besides formed a “Freedom Initiative” to create plans to reside immoderate argumentation and regulatory “threats” from a Trump administration.

This is what passes for action successful Albany.

Having aides pinch clip for this partisan delirium is really nan authorities ends up sidesplitting a pet squirrel.

Living successful acheronian fantasy

When they appeared together, Hochul said first, saying grimly that “we person weathered storms before” and “we will get done this uncertainty of a caller management successful Washington.”

“We guidelines fresh to respond to immoderate threats of governmental violence,” she added, apparently imagining herself opinionated heroically down a barricade arsenic MAGA hordes descend connected nan once-grand Empire State to bargain distant abortion rights.

Before spewing specified nonsense, she mightiness person checked nan predetermination returns.

Some 3.5 cardinal New Yorkers voted for Trump Tuesday — aliases 43% of nan full turnout.

It’s still a bluish state, but nan GOP is intelligibly making inroads, and Hochul herself had a adjacent telephone 2 years agone against GOP campaigner Lee Zeldin.

Nobody is invincible and she would beryllium wise to make New York a amended spot to unrecorded and activity alternatively of picking fights pinch a caller president and his supporters.

Moreover, Trump is simply a lifelong New Yorker, and he would emotion to thief nan metropolis and state.

Threatening him is not nan measurement to get that help.

Nor did Hochul thief nan authorities past week erstwhile she foolishly called anyone who voted for Republican candidates “anti-women” and “anti-American.”

There’s thing much anti-American than utilizing regular governmental disputes to telephone your force anti-American.

James besides managed to frighten nan president-elect, informing that “we will usage nan norm of rule to conflict backmost . . . we are prepared to conflict back.”

By nan norm of law, does she mean bringing different rigged tribunal lawsuit for illustration nan business-fraud action she brought against nan caller president-elect?

The 1 based connected thing isolated from her run committedness to get Trump — is that nan norm of rule she has successful mind?

End nan petty lawfare

New York deserves amended and it’s not to precocious for Hochul and James to do better.

Hochul should do nan smart, decent point by pushing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to retreat his ginned-up business-fraud lawsuit against Trump.

Trump was convicted of 34 rigged felonies and sentencing is scheduled for later this month.

If Bragg won’t act, Hochul has nan powerfulness to assistance Trump a pardon, though it would beryllium amended if nan lawsuit were simply wiped away.

He’s going to beryllium president of nan United States — does New York want to humiliate him truthful overmuch that America itself will beryllium debased successful nan eyes of nan world arsenic a third-world banana republic?

James, too, could retreat nan civilian case, which is nether appeal.

The oral arguments suggested that astatine slightest immoderate appellate judges person heavy reservations astir a lawsuit of clear overreach.

There were besides questions astir whether James moreover had nan correct to bring nan case.

The truth is that some authorities cases were each astir damaging Trump truthful that he would not beryllium re-elected.

The cases grounded to do that and successful nan tone of nan public’s sweeping verdict Tuesday, it’s clip to extremity nan lawfare and activity pinch nan caller president, not against him.

In fact, Trump said astatine nan Al Smith meal that he looked guardant to moving pinch Mayor Adams and Hochul.

They ought to adopt nan aforesaid spirit.

Cooperation whitethorn not suit their politics, but it helps New York.

And that’s their job.