In this 2019 file photo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo addresses those gathered for a news conference in Albany ahead of the passage of the Child Victims Act.

Andrew Cuomo appears to be steamrolling his way to becoming New York City’s next mayor, his Act III in American politics. And during this surreal and unbelievably fraught time — as an oligarch burns down the federal government, the president mounts a shambolic trade war with Canada, and a U.S. health secretary recommends cod liver oil instead of vaccines to stem a measles outbreak — that might not be such a terrible thing.

I’m not the first person you’d predict to express this opinion.

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As a Capitol reporter, I witnessed most of Act I, in which the sharp-elbowed son of a national liberal icon wangles his way into a federal Cabinet post, marries a Kennedy, then stages an impetuous and quixotic campaign 2002 Democratic primary for New York governor against frontrunner H. Carl McCall, the distinguished and accomplished front-runner who had patiently waited his turn to be the Democratic Party nominee.

Cuomo dropped out of that race days before the election, when it became clear that he would lose badly. His subsequent divorce with Kerry Kennedy became tabloid fodder. Curtain down.

Act II began just four years later, when Cuomo slipped in as attorney general, filling the........

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