NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscA culture of impunity led media to celebrate a governor who presided over a cover-up of nursing-home carnage and boost a GOP group now engulfed in scandal.ShareThis story was written by David Sirota and Andrew Perez.In the chaos of 2020, the national press corps used all of its magical mythmaking and storytelling powers to conjure two towering political heroes for a country in crisis. From the maw of the media machine, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Lincoln Project emerged as our alleged sentinels bravely battling a deadly pandemic and an...…NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscA culture of impunity led media to celebrate a governor who presided over a cover-up of nursing-home carnage and boost a GOP group now engulfed in scandal.ShareThis story was written by David Sirota and Andrew Perez.In the chaos of 2020, the national press corps used all of its magical mythmaking and storytelling powers to conjure two towering political heroes for a country in crisis. From the maw of the media machine, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Lincoln Project emerged as our alleged sentinels bravely battling a deadly pandemic and an...WW…