Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These. When I started reading about the allegations against Andrew Cuomo,

there was one person whose analysis I really wanted to hear. Rebecca Tracer, who's writing about the

Me Too movement and, more generally, the bad behavior of men, especially progressive men, has been

bracing, revelatory, and necessary. And I'm pleased to tell you that this is the person you're

going to hear from this week. Rebecca is a senior writer for New York magazine, and her cover

story about Cuomo is titled Abuse and Power. I will drop a content warning here, in case you

weren't thinking about it. We will be discussing sexual harassment and the more hard-to-define

experience of people using their power to erase and de-legitimize the women around them.

That's actually the thing that can kind of trigger me, to be honest. So do what you need to do to

get ready for the conversation, even if that means saving it for later. If what you need right now

is to talk to someone about your experience, the rape abuse incest national network is there for you.

You can call them at 800-656-HOPE, or access their live support at online.rain.org. That's R-A-I-N-N,

Rain with two ends. And remember, there is no such thing as an experience that doesn't count,

or isn't bad enough, to get help for. If it happened to you, it matters, it counts, and you deserve help.

Rebecca Schraster, coming right up. Rebecca, welcome back to the show.

It's always nice to be here. One of the most fascinating things, of course, to me,

is that he was so held up as the kind of progressive's answer to Trump. He was the anti-Trump.

But you're reporting sort of suggests that he's not the left's answer to Trump. He is the left's

Trump. People who were paying close attention, there's a great thing that Alex Preen wrote in

the New Republic about the television character Cuomo versus the newspaper character Cuomo.

And if you had the sort of time interest patients and focus to be following the Cuomo administration,

you knew that he wasn't the answer to Trump. And you knew actually a lot of the very things that

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