{"id":465075,"date":"2022-06-18T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-eric-adams-cant-defeat-aoc-and-socialists-destroying-nyc\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:44:44","slug":"why-eric-adams-cant-defeat-aoc-and-socialists-destroying-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-eric-adams-cant-defeat-aoc-and-socialists-destroying-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Eric Adams can\u2019t defeat AOC and socialists destroying NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a3df3b76925c\" 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-6a3df3b76925c\" 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\/why-eric-adams-cant-defeat-aoc-and-socialists-destroying-nyc\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_Eric_Adams_cant_defeat_AOC_and_socialists_destroying_NYC%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why Eric Adams can\u2019t defeat AOC and socialists destroying NYC&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_Eric_Adams_cant_defeat_AOC_and_socialists_destroying_NYC%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why Eric Adams can\u2019t defeat AOC and socialists destroying NYC&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The successful recall of the hard-left San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was met with a sigh of relief among people concerned about public safety. \u201cAt last,\u201d read a thousand opeds from coast to coast, \u201cthe pendulum is swinging back, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a>ists are on the run nationwide.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast. Boudin\u2019s defeat \u2014 while great <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for normal people and a setback for the forces of chaos that have seized control of the nation\u2019s cities \u2014 will not derail the Leftist program of sabotage that has accelerated the crime rate faster than ever before, especially in Gotham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tempting to draw conclusions about the future of Democratic politics \u2014 that is to say, politics \u2014 in New York from the recall of Boudin, and to imagine that the Left is reeling. But any comparisons are misleading.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, New York doesn\u2019t have recalls, so there\u2019s no chance of dislodging Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg or Bronx DA Darcel Clark anytime soon. Governor Hochul in theory could remove a failing district attorney, but the chances of that h<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>ening are slim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/chesea-boudin.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"After just two years of unpopular far-left policies, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled by his city's voters earlier this month. \" class=\"wp-image-22691049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/chesea-boudin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/chesea-boudin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/chesea-boudin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>After just two years of unpopular far-left policies, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled by his city\u2019s voters earlier this month. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some have looked to Mayor Adams\u2019 war of words with Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a sign that traditional Democrats are putting their crazy cousins back in the attic. Ocasio-Cortez and Adams are fighting a proxy war in two state assembly primary races, where Leftist upstarts are challenging Dem stalwarts Inez Dickens in Harlem and Michael Benedetto in the Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if two veteran Democrats need to bring in the big guns to fight their primary challenges, in what sense does that signal strength? Inez Dickens has been a significant political presence in her district for 50 years, and has easily beaten back primary challenges in the past. If she needs to get the mayor involved to fend off a challenge from the Left, that means she\u2019s running scared. Ditto for the 75-year old Benedetto, whose district has become significantly less white and more Hispanic since he was first elected in 2005, and who is in dire trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/aoc-adams.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is battling it out with Eric Adams over a pair of state assembly primary races.  \" class=\"wp-image-22691067\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/aoc-adams.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/aoc-adams.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/aoc-adams.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/aoc-adams.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/aoc-adams.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is battling it out with Eric Adams over a pair of state assembly primary races.  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s true that the Socialists in the city council failed to achieve all their priorities in the first budget under new leadership. But they did push Speaker Adrienne Adams to expand spending, including hundreds of millions of additional dollars on rental vouchers. They also managed to defeat a council vote asking Albany to sweeten police pensions in the face of a tsunami of retirements; this was the first time in at least 25 years that a floor vote was defeated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s Progressive Caucus, formed in 2010, used to have just a handful of members. Now, with 34 councilmembers, the Progs comprise a veto-proof supermajority. In theory, they can pass anything they want. The caucus also just hired an extremist anti-Israel activist, Emily Mayer, as its \u201cdirector\u201d; her husband, Waleed Shahid, works for Justice Democrats, the gang behind the election of Ocasio-Cortez and her \u201cSquad\u201d colleagues.\u00a0<\/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\/06\/dickens-benedetto.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Longtime assembly-members Inez Dickens of Harlem and Michael Benedetto of The Bronx are facing more radical challengers backed by AOC.\" class=\"wp-image-22691089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dickens-benedetto.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dickens-benedetto.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dickens-benedetto.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Longtime assembly-members Inez Dickens of Harlem and Michael Benedetto of The Bronx are facing more radical challengers backed by AOC.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images; Hans Pennink<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mayer was slotted into her new job by our hard-Left Comptroller Brad Lander. Lander\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradlander\/status\/1286366322784428035?s=20&amp;t=b2lhYG0IO4MIZ4Li5cLkMw\">joined<\/a>\u00a0the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) 30 years ago and considers himself a member to this day. He supports DSA-backed candidates in New York and across the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lander has written of his hopes that the real estate market in NYC crashes. Then, Lander prays, the city can seize all the abandoned buildings for unpaid taxes and give them to the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/02\/opinion\/new-york-housing-stores-land-banks.html\">non-profit organizations<\/a>\u00a0that he relies on for his political support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bragg-clark.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Despite their ruinous, soft-on-crime policies, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Bronx DA Darcel Clark won't face a recall anytime soon; New York law doesn't allow it. \" class=\"wp-image-22691113\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bragg-clark.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bragg-clark.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bragg-clark.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bragg-clark.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bragg-clark.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Despite their ruinous, soft-on-crime policies, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Bronx DA Darcel Clark won\u2019t face a recall anytime soon; New York law doesn\u2019t allow it. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP; REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The comptroller\u2019s wife, incidentally, runs Nonprofit New York, an umbrella group for these rent-seeking groups. It\u2019s no accident that since becoming comptroller Brad Lander has made \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.nyc.gov\/newsroom\/new-york-city-comptroller-brad-lander-lays-out-new-administrations-roadmap\/\">prompt payment<\/a>\u201d to these often corrupt or useless organizations a top priority.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Far from a spent force, the DSA and its allies in New York politics and government are alive and well and promoting their destructive policies just as aggressively as ever.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/06\/brad-lander2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"NYC Councilmember Brad Lander joined the Democratic Socialists of America more than 30 years ago \u2014 no surprise he wants to redistribute NYC real estate to social housing organizations. \" class=\"wp-image-22691124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYC Councilmember Brad Lander joined the Democratic Socialists of America more than 30 years ago \u2014 no surprise he wants to redistribute NYC real estate to social housing organizations. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We must understand that the hard Left sees its setbacks and losses as strategic. They propose extreme measures \u2014 like defunding the police or making housing free \u2014 knowing that they will fail, for now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But they get their ideas out in public, and when the dust has settled, we scarcely notice that they have gained a few inches of precious ground in their fight to make society less free, less prosperous and more dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers who care about the future of their city must shun complacency. While we sleep, the Left is brewing up plans to destroy everything we cherish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Seth Barron (@sethbarronnyc) is managing editor of The American Mind and the author of\u00a0\u201cThe Last Days of New York\u201d\u00a0(Humanix).<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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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