The Existential Anxiety of the White Male Democrat

Andrew Cuomo: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great."

by John Derbyshire
August 29, 2018

Andrew Cuomo, Governor of my home state of New York, was recently speaking in Manhattan (8/15), signing a bill to make sex trafficking a felony in the state. He made a now-famous gaffe, which says a great deal about the state of the modern Democrat Party.

But first, just a word about sex trafficking.

Kidnapping vulnerable young girls and renting them out for sex is a flourishing business down among the urban underclass. The Muslim Rape Gangs in England are the best-known cases, but plenty of it goes on here in the USA too.

As in England, it’s very much an ethnic affair here, although news reports tie themselves in pretzels trying to obscure the fact, see Inside New York’s silent sex trafficking epidemic, NYPost, April 17, 2018. There’s an immigration angle, too; a lot of the women being trafficked here are illegal aliens from Mexico, Central America, and Asia.

It’s a problem in New York, and our legislators figured we need a new law to deal with it. I find…