OPINION:
Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, made what’s called in the world of politics a suicidal step by saying, for all the country to hear, that America’s not that great — that the notion of American exceptionalism is pretty much ridiculous.
Or, at least, his comments would’ve been political suicide, in a day and age of Democrat reason.
Today’s Democratic Party bluntly agrees with him: America is lousy, Americans — the ones who voted for President Donald Trump, at least — are stupid, and the United States in general needs a complete European overhaul.
This is why Democrats are failing.
They don’t like the America the founders envisioned and instead, want to reshape into socialism.
Cuomo’s comments, made during a bill signing in seeming reference to Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” motto, said: “We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”
He went on: “We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged. We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women — 51 percent of our population — is gone and every woman’s full potential is realized and unleashed.”
Some in the crowd gasped; many more cheered.
Either way, today’s Democrat will still vote for Cuomo, who’s seeking his third gubernatorial term.
Trump very rightly slammed Cuomo for the comments.
” ’WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT,’ ” he tweeted. “Can you believe this is the Governor of the Highest Taxed State in the U.S., Andrew Cuomo, having a total meltdown!”
But such is the direction of the Democratic Party these past years.
Barack Obama quite successfully drilled into leftist minds that the problem with America was America itself — that this country has been on a crash course, since founding, toward internal destruction due to inherent racism, inherent misogyny, inherent social injustice.
The left has become the party of Not America, Not This America.
Problem is: Most Americans tend to like their country. The fact that our military is all volunteer gives a clue to that; the fact you can’t drive a street down heartland America without seeing a flying U.S. flag is another; the fact Trump with his MAGA-talking self, his “America First” promises, won the White House — yet another.
Democrats — the Democratic Party of “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” — used to like America, too. Sadly, the party’s been taken over by too many Cuomos, who’ve in turn booted all the John F. Kennedys. The Democratic Party’s very platform has become one of Change America Into Something It’s Not.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchu
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