#Cuomo blames de Blasio for defeats NY Democrats were asking for

Gov. Cuomo is blaming Mayor de Blasio for Democratic losses all across the state, but for once he’s giving Hizzoner more credit than he deserves.

“They ran de Blasio’s picture all over the state,” said Cuomo on Alan Chartock’s WAMC radio show Thursday, parodying the GOP line: “They’ll turn New York state into New York City, looting and crime and homelessness, law and order!”

Sure, de Blasio makes an excellent poster child for how not to run things — but he had a lot of help, including from Cuomo himself.

Consider: The governor signed that blighted “no bail” bill into law and resisted even modest fixes to it despite months of warnings from progressives like Albany County DA David Soares.

Only after a series of repeat offenders walked, only to be re-arrested for violent crimes, did Cuomo and the Democratic-run Legislature tighten up the law at all. And they still haven’t fixed the key problem — namely, that it doesn’t let judges require bail for dangerous and/or chronic offenders.

Voters were always going to recoil from the “moderate” suburban Democratic lawmakers who empowered the hopelessly soft-on-crime lefties to impose this madness.

Then the rioting in the name of Black Lives Matters, at the height of the pandemic, deepened the blowback: Too many people felt unsafe in their own neighborhoods, too many businesses got looted.

Another factor: the on-the-offensive socialists, symbolically led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has a huge fan base, in the city and across the nation — but radicalism doesn’t play well in the suburbs, or in many NYC neighborhoods.

Killing the Amazon deal — with No. 2 state Senate Democrat, Mike Gianaris, doing the dirty work to back AOC’s rhetoric — also told voters that electing Democrats means saying no to economic opportunity.

AOC may pretend to speak for every minority New Yorker, but a whole lot of them would’ve liked some of those 25,000 jobs.

Heck, the governor himself basically invited a voter rebellion with his handling of the pandemic — not just his heavy-handed lockdowns, but his deadly nursing-home order that he still pretends is a right-wing fiction. Too many Democrats and moderates lost loved ones in homes that might have never had any coronavirus without the order Cuomo’s administration issued, simply to appease the hospital lobby.

This debacle isn’t on de Blasio: It was a New York Democratic team effort.