Well, 60% of the voters are in the NYC metro. Once the suburbs took a hard left turn in the 90s, the state became unfixable. Yes, the voters got desperate and sent up Pataki and Giuliani. Nothing they achieved could be sustained for any length of time. The state senate used to be a firewall, thanks to a quirk in the way seats were allocated, but that also went off the deep end after 2018.