Good riddance to fake-moderate Cuomo, but beware hard left’s pounce

As his own biggest fan, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the only New Yorker who doesn’t seem to understand that he’s toast. Whether he preserves a scrap of grace by stepping down, or forces the Legislature to remove him, Cuomo’s political career is kaput.

The departure of the Creepy Guv will create an executive power vacuum, likely to be filled with the ambitions of Albany’s corrupt lawmakers and hard-left ideologues who look to Cuba and Venezuela as models for the Empire State. Still, the image of Cuomo-the-bulwark was often just that: Cuomo sold himself as a pragmatic moderate who was a bulwark against socialist excesses. To a certain extent, this was true, and his backdoor dealings with breakaway Democrats in the state Senate provided bipartisan balance in Albany.