I had a close friend, who barely if ever actually follow politics, ask me last week with a straight face when Cuomo resigned "why is it that Republican leaders get less criticism for their mistakes than Democrats?"
It took me a couple of days to figure it out, but I think I did. When you have the MSM constantly screaming at you about how Republicans are evil, you start to wonder why they aren't forced to quit and resign when they are clearly evil. There are people that genuinely wonder why it is that Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis haven't been forced to resign yet for killing kids. So when you are constantly told that Republicans are evil, yet they are still in power, it looks like they aren't being punished for being evil. Whereas Governor Cuomo was everyone's darling, "made one mistake", and now has to resign. In fact when Cuomo resign, Matt Gaetz started trending on Twitter because he hasn't been forced to resign yet.
So TL;DR, parts of the general public wonder why are Abbott and DeSantis are allowed to kill children and not get punished for it?