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As we witness statements of disunity and declared opposition—right from the get-go—from New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul and New York State Attorney General Letitia James toward Trump 2.0, we should all recognize that they are simply embracing the time-honored New York political tradition of self-serving, opportunistic, “preservation cowardice.”

From Francis Lewis to Tammany Hall, Hillary “The Carpetbagger” Clinton to Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York politicians have always put themselves and their special interest causes ahead of their constituents and have—routinely—exited office much wealthier than their paychecks would afford for doing so.

Today, the main self-involved “Sorosian” loyalists from New York are Hochul (D), James (D), and Judge Juan Merchan (D), the Colombian-born former prosecutor and current acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan) who presided over the legal abomination that was President-Elect Donald Trump’s “hush money trial”:

* Hochul announced the formation of the Empire State Freedom Initiative to prepare to fight “policy and regulatory threats” from the incoming Trump administration

* James announced her office was “ready to fight back again,” in announcing that “[t]ogether with Governor Hochul, our partners in state and local government, and my colleague attorneys general from throughout the nation, we will work each and every day to defend Americans, no matter what this new administration throws at us.”

* And Merchan, in a meeker move of political cowardice, is considering tossing out Donald Trump’s felony convictions following Tuesday’s election results.

As an aside, Hochul, James, and Merchan aren’t the only Sorosian malcontents to display their arrogance.

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice is said to be furiously winding down its fraudulent Jack Smith-led federal criminal cases against President-Elect Trump. This would end the spate of politically motivated lawfare against the President-Elect, actions that threatened to transform our federal government into one akin to a third-world dictatorship.

And California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has called a special session of the California State Legislature to protect his state’s neo-Marxian policies from the Trump administration, with the Los Angeles Times opining, “The new special session provides an early look at the governor’s plan to wage an aggressive and highly visible campaign to shield California from the Trump White House.”

A Long Tradition Of Obstruction

Incidentally, did you know that in the quintessential move that started it all for the United States—the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the New York delegates to the Continental Congress were so cowardly in their fear of King George that they could only muster enough courage to “abstain” from voting against a move toward independence for the colonies?

When the Declaration was voted into existence on July 2, 1776, New York's delegates—Francis Lewis, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, and Lewis Morris— abstained from voting for independence. In a politically disingenuous and strategic move, the New York delegates were instructed to wait for further guidance from their Provincial Cong