When I was a kid, my parents left me in charge one night when they went to dinner. Of course I pushed my weight around. "You have to do what I say because Mom and Dad said so." When my parents returned, I was a crumpled mess, crying my eyes out because "They won't listen to me. They don't do what I say."
I see this same behavior in many of the Dem governors and mayors. The question is, who is Mommy and Daddy?