Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference at New York Common Pantry on October 30, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images

The news was shocking, yet also so familiar that I’ve adopted a rote reaction.

It goes like this: Does Gov. Hochul actually have any governing principles, or is she just making it up as she goes along?

That was my thought Friday when reports emerged that Hochul is suddenly, as The Post put it, “open to raising taxes on NY corporations to fund socialist Zohran Mamdani’s freebies.”

Holy flip-flop!

Wait, is this really the same Hochul who said absolutely no to those same tax hikes in June?

“I’m not raising taxes at a time where affordability is the big issue,” she said back then, on television no less.

That was a week before the Democratic Party’s mayoral p

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