{"id":279752,"date":"2021-06-21T02:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-progressives-going-to-lose-the-dem-primary-to-crime\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T02:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T23:24:28","slug":"nyc-progressives-going-to-lose-the-dem-primary-to-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-progressives-going-to-lose-the-dem-primary-to-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC progressives going to lose the Dem primary to crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC progressives going to lose the Dem primary to crime<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Gotham\u2019s self-styled progressives are going to lose Tuesday\u2019s Democratic mayoral primary, and they should be glad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The relentless chaos of the past few months shows that nobody cares about \u201cprogressive\u201d issues, like bike lanes or a higher minimum wage, when crime is rising \u2014 all they care about is order. Multiple polls show: Voters\u2019 main issue in this race is public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s Post poll of potential Democratic voters shows that 29.4 percent rank crime as their most important issue, nearly trip<\/a>le the second big \u00adissue, housing, with 10.6 percent. The results mirror a Manhattan Institute poll showing that 52 percent of New Yorkers are worried about crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poorer people and minorities are the most fearful, because crime hits them hardest: In the Post survey, 35 percent of Bronxites were voting mostly on crime, compared to 26.3 percent of Manhattanites; 38.7 percent of people making less than $20,000 picked crime as top of mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These voters will ensure that a moderate will serve as the Big \u00adApp<\/a>le\u2019s next mayor. Of the eight men and women still standing, four are moderates, and three \u2014 Post pick Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia and \u00adAndrew Yang \u2014 have a credible shot at winning City Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of the four progressive candidates, only one, Maya Wiley, polls well, and even if she consolidates the ranked-choice votes of all four, it won\u2019t be enough to win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The progressives, of course, are despondent. All over lefty urban Twitter<\/a> \u2014 mostly affluent, young and white \u2014 the cries are the same: Why weren\u2019t there questions about bike lanes at the debates? Why doesn\u2019t anyone care about climate change?<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t quite blame the voters. Rather, the implication is that the voters are dumb: People are afraid to ride the subway not because entirely random slashings, stabbings and pushings drove the number of violent felonies on the subways from 64 in April to 116 in May, more than three times higher than in 2019, when adjusted for ridership. Rather, progs think, they\u2019re afraid because the \u00admedia, by reporting on the news<\/a>, have tricked them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Early voting in New York City\u2019s mayoral primary election has started as of Saturday.<\/figcaption>
Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But progressives\u2019 best hope is a tough-on-crime major who wrests today\u2019s numbers \u2014 a murder rate that\u2019s 53 percent higher than in 2019 \u2014 down. When crime is high, New Yorkers only care about crime, and they don\u2019t care about much else.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Worried about pedestrian deaths? You should be: They\u2019re up 21 percent this year, compared to 2019, with 57 dead, so far, this year. But you don\u2019t hear much about it, do you? When people are worried about being shot, they\u2019re uninterested in street design: 1990, with 701 traffic deaths, compared to 2019\u2019s 220, was also the year of a record-high 2,262 murders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Want more investment in public parks? The good liberals who live around Washington Square aren\u2019t going to support more funding for the city\u2019s parks when their park has been turned into an all-night, drug-fueled slash-fest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Want enlightened policing, better homeless services, \u00ad\u201csocial justice,\u201d reduced racial tension, better environmental policies? They\u2019re so low on \u00adpotential voters\u2019 list of priorities \u2014 all in the single digits \u2014 that you can barely see them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More bike lanes? In the late 1980s and early \u201990s, the city\u2019s pro-cycling \u2019zines were filled with tips about how to avoid \u00adviolent robbers on the Brooklyn Bridge and how to prevent your bike from being stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The scene where a woman was bleeding and a man was arrested near the arch in Washington Square Park.<\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Better subway service? With ridership still below half of pre-COVID levels, in part because of fear over crime, the constituency for on-time service is \u00adindefinitely smaller.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The $15 minimum wage, sick leave for all workers, universal pre-K: The city only achieved those things during the early de Blasio years because crime was so low that New Yorkers could relax and broaden their interests to other matters. Righter-than-average Mayors Ed Koch, \u00adRudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg paved the way for New York\u2019s progressive renaissance (Bloomberg was progressive on many issues himself).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The best thing for the city\u2019s left wing is a closer-to-right-wing mayor (within the liberal New York context, of course). Once murders edge down closer to 300 a year, rather than 500, progressives can then merrily go back to advancing their causes, some\u00a0good (more bus and bike lanes) and some bad (legalizing prostitution).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then they can complain to their friends over brunch in the city\u2019s safest neighborhoods about the bad, old days of yet another moderate mayor who had to save them from themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan \u00adInstitute\u2019s City Journal.\u00a0<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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