Read Pierce. He has some choice words for two winning candidates who call themselves Democrats but behave like plutocrats: Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island.

Raimondo is the state treasurer who cut the hell out of government employees’ pensions while at the same time turning a billion bucks of those funds over to hedge funds to manage, thus obligating the state to pay them millions and millions of dollars every year in fees. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t call that standard Democratic public policy.

Cuomo has some questionable behavior of his own. He apparently made a deal with some center-right Democrats in the state Senate which kept that body under Republican control despite there being nominally more Democrats in it than Republicans. His goal was apparently to keep the Dems from passing liberal legislation he’d either have to sign or veto, either of which he thinks would hurt his potential run for President down the road a piece. Then he disbanded a commission he’d formed himself to hunt for corruption in state government, despite its progress in finding some 15 legislators it wanted to investigate. The reason he formed the commission was seemingly just to force the legislature to pass some ethics legislation; once it had done so he promptly fired the commissioners. I don’t think Andrew’s even a pale imitation of his old man Mario.