Bill Ackman’s about-face on Andrew Cuomo is just the latest example of how even great businessmen can’t instantly succeed when they set out to influence politics.

Immediately after a fumbling Cuomo lost the Democratic mayoral primary to far-left upstart Zohran Mamdani, Ackman publicly promised to bigfoot the process and save New York by “crowdsourcing” to find the “best centrist candidate” to take on the Democratic Socialists “on the campaign trail and on the debate stage.”

“I will take care of the fundraising,” Ackman vowed. “There are hundreds of millions of dollars” to be tapped quickly.

Oops: After a few days of poking around under the hood and reading the manual of local politics, Ackman realized that taking over City Hall isn’t just a matter of holding a candidate cattle call an

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