In advancing public policy, you expect the person who holds the moral high ground to win. The battle is who’s able to conquer that high ground and keep it. Unfortunately, the moral high ground is often a matter of perspective, and the political right has been cast far too readily as the villain by over-simplified, bumper-sticker narratives in the media. However, those bumper stickers will soon be covered to up to feature a new villain: New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo.

Normally, the left wins the high ground by saying the government should intervene to protect some unprotected group and anyone standing in the way is the bad guy. For the sake of simplicity let’s call this a David and Goliath narrative—and everyone always wants to see David win.