A certain kind of politics died with Andrew Cuomo ’s political career on Tuesday night.

He was, at his peak, the consummate Machiavellian macher . For him, it was always better to be feared than loved. During his 11 years as governor, he wielded the machinery of the government to unsettle and punish his rivals like few in the history of New York, and he was known, above all, as an executive who was never to be crossed. He was a bruiser, a bully, and as a mayoral candidate he hoped to export that cutthroat style to the streets of New York City. Courting voters was an afterthought. He would intimidate enough of the old power players in the shadows, collect his chits, and rumble to victory.

Instead, he was throttled twice by Zohran Mamdani . Cuomo found himself, for the first time in

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