My grandfather was Mario Cuomo's COS for a while, other roles too. He told me that this was going to happen when I went to visit with him in 2001, a couple of months before 9-11. According to him:
NY GOP was in bed with Russia in the 80s
The GOP was going to go over to Putin.
Trump was going to be president w/strong backing from the evangelicals.
I excused myself to the bathroom because I thought his mind was slipping. It sounded so insane.