{"id":441357,"date":"2022-05-03T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-tells-biden-not-to-repeat-his-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:43:35","slug":"de-blasio-tells-biden-not-to-repeat-his-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-tells-biden-not-to-repeat-his-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio tells Biden not to repeat his mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26ea964315c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26ea964315c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-tells-biden-not-to-repeat-his-mistakes\/#%E2%80%9CDe_Blasio_tells_Biden_not_to_repeat_his_mistakes%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;De Blasio tells Biden not to repeat his mistakes&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDe_Blasio_tells_Biden_not_to_repeat_his_mistakes%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;De Blasio tells Biden not to repeat his mistakes&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Former Mayor Bill de Blasio has gone from eating pizza\u00a0with a fork to\u00a0chowing down on a huge helping of humble pie.<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive admitted in a new article that he wound up as one of the city\u2019s most\u00a0unpopular mayors\u00a0because he grew out of touch with average New Yorkers and failed to engage with the city\u2019s \u201caggrieved residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He even said that he\u2019s become such an \u201cexpert\u201d in \u201cbeing unpopular\u201d that he felt qualified to offer some\u00a0advice to\u00a0President Joe Biden,\u00a0a fellow Democratic politician whose <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval\u00a0ratings are in the basement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fear Biden is making the same mistake,\u201d as he made, de Blasio said. \u201cHe\u2019s handling crucial problems as they arise, yet without illustrating to the public what a better America looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio \u2014 who is now\u00a0living at a pricey Brooklyn hotel\u00a0while his\u00a0Park Slope home is renovated\u00a0\u2014 made the out-of-character confession in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-approval-2022-midterms\/629740\/\">an article published Tuesday morning in The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 920-word piece, the former mayor said he failed to present an \u201coverarching vision for the future,\u201d and that made him lose touch with the electorate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/joe-biden-president-camera-phones.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Biden speaks during an Eid al-Fitr reception in the East Room of the White House on May 2.\" class=\"wp-image-22122487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/joe-biden-president-camera-phones.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/joe-biden-president-camera-phones.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/joe-biden-president-camera-phones.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden speaks during an Eid al-Fitr reception in the East Room of the White House on May 2.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn 2017, I won my second term with two-thirds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>-election vote. But by last year my popularity had tanked. Why?\u201d de Blasio, who\u00a0left office\u00a0at the end of 2021, wrote. \u201cI failed to give New Yorkers a clear sense of where I was taking them. I lost my connection with the people because I mistook real policy for real popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI let a focus on individual initiatives, no matter how noble or substantive, distract me from offering an overarching vision for the future,\u201d the former mayor explained.<\/p>\n<p>In the part public letter to the president, part mea culpa, the Democratic former politician ascribed\u00a0his unpopularity\u00a0to being aloof while attempting to address key issues such as the Big Apple\u2019s\u00a0troubled public housing agency,\u00a0dangerous and disorderly jails\u00a0that he\u00a0begrudgingly toured\u00a0after a spate of inmate deaths, and police-community relations.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio posited that his approach as mayor stood in stark contrast to the one he adopted during the 2013 mayoral campaign, when he recalled learning how much Pre-K meant to \u201cparents desperately trying to make ends meet for their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-hochul.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Biden speaks with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, as well as De Blasio and his with Chirlane McCray on Sept. 20, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-22122493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-hochul.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-hochul.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-hochul.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden speaks with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, as well as de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, on Sept. 20, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Universal Pre-Kindergarten became de Blasio\u2019s signature accomplishment during his eight years in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed to engage with aggrieved residents of public housing, for example, the same as I did with those parents early on,\u201d he wrote in the magazine. \u201cI should have walked among them rather than just working for them behind closed doors. Voters need to know both what you\u2019re up to and why you\u2019re up to it. You have to help them feel your efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though during the final end of his term\u00a0de Blasio admitted to reporters\u00a0that he often acted in an \u201coff-putting\u201d manner while responding to questions from the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, he rarely copped to missteps while serving as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio \u2014 who after leaving office with low approval ratings\u00a0mulled a run for governor\u00a0and\u00a0for a Congressional\u00a0seat before\u00a0opting not to launch\u00a0either\u00a0campaigns\u00a0\u2014 warned that the president may be heading down the same path he did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"Bill De Blasio\" class=\"wp-image-22122501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=346 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=115 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><figcaption>De Blasio admitted he lost touch with average New Yorkers.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden \u2014 whose\u00a0approval rating among registered voters\u00a0stands at 35%, according to a recent poll \u2014 has been working \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d to address domestic and international crises while failing to publicly articulate a vision for a \u201cbetter America,\u201d de Blasio opined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Americans expect him to address innumerable daily issues and run an extensive bureaucracy. And I understand that behind the scenes, he\u2019s keeping together the extraordinary coalition he built to support Ukraine,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut that example illustrates a bigger point: Keeping things together, even in the midst of a crisis, isn\u2019t the same as moving things forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio then confessed he didn\u2019t use his platform in an effective manner \u2014 and told Biden to use his much larger one to demonstrate that he \u201ctruly empathizes with everyday Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the mayor of New York City, I had one of the loudest megaphones in the country, and I failed to use it properly.\u00a0 Biden\u2019s bully pulpit is a thousand times more powerful. He needs to use it to show that he truly empathizes with everyday Americans on the issues they care most about, such as\u00a0inflation,\u00a0public safety, and affordable health care,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden still has a chance to do what I did not: present a clear, sharp message and repeat it incessantly.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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