{"id":465203,"date":"2022-06-19T03:11:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T00:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/take-the-fight-to-the-left-mayor-eric-adams\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T03:11:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T00:11:36","slug":"take-the-fight-to-the-left-mayor-eric-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/take-the-fight-to-the-left-mayor-eric-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"#Take the fight to the left, Mayor Eric Adams"},"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-6a3525515c42e\" 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-6a3525515c42e\" 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\/take-the-fight-to-the-left-mayor-eric-adams\/#%E2%80%9CTake_the_fight_to_the_left_Mayor_Eric_Adams%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Take the fight to the left, Mayor Eric Adams&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTake_the_fight_to_the_left_Mayor_Eric_Adams%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Take the fight to the left, Mayor Eric Adams&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/052622-mayor-eric-adams-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Good on Harlem Assemblywoman Inez Dickens for saying it out loud: \u201cWe are Democrats! We are not <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ists \u2026 the socialists are trying to take over New York.\u201d And good on Mayor Eric Adams for backing Dickens in her re-election bid ahead of the June 28 primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Challenging Dickens is Delsenia Glover, a housing activist backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bx\/Queens) and her  Democratic Socialist comrades. Adams has also come out for Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benedetto against former AOC staffer<strong> <\/strong>Jonathan Soto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These moves are in line with a notable remark the mayor made at a July 2021 fund-raiser: \u201cI\u2019m no longer running against candidates. I\u2019m running against a movement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s correct. AOC and her allies move in rigid lockstep. It\u2019s helped them push through policies that have hurt the city and state.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The movement gained power in part because it targeted older incumbents whose districts had changed \u2014 sometimes, ironically (given progressive rhetoric) via gentrification: Those were the voters who helped AOC leap to fame by ousting Rep. Joe Crowley in a primary. And Bronx Rep. Eliot Engel had been in office forever when Jamaal Bowman took him out in another primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their policies didn\u2019t reveal their true nuttiness at first. They shouted about defunding the police with crime at historic lows and demanded massive new government outlays in boom times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But COVID, the crime spike and our unfolding economic disaster changed that background. Adams\u2019 own victory underscores how much: A tough-on-crime, pro-business ex-cop beat a host of candidates to his left, winning wildly among working- and middle-class non-white voters sick of lawless streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>And the trends that propelled Adams into office are in evidence across the country. Witness the recall of crime-loving San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin.<strong> <\/strong>Or the stunning special election in Texas Tuesday, where GOPer Mayra Flores flipped a historic Dem stronghold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why? The policies left-wing Democrats enacted \u2014 on policing, schools and the economy \u2014 hurt average Americans big-time. Adams has noted this as well, pointing out last summer that the progressive label has been \u201chijacked by those who do not have a track record of putting in place real progressive changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Look no further than the ugly crime stats for big cities for proof. Or the terrible, ongoing effects of widespread public-school closures. Or the inflation now crushing American families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OK, a Texas-style upset won\u2019t happen (yet) in deep-blue New York. That\u2019s one reason why AOC and her minions feel so confident sticking to their idiotic policy pre<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\">script<\/a>ions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if they claw up even more legislative power, they\u2019ll cause an even <em>bigger<\/em> disaster here by worsening already-bad trends on the issues voters care most about (like crime and jobs).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which makes the efforts of Adams, Dickens and other like-minded Dems to oppose them all the more essential.<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers are sick of \u201cequity.\u201d They want elected officials who are actually going to stick up for their interests, instead of trying to remake city and state into an impossible utopia.\u00a0\u00a0\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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We are not socialists \u2026 the socialists are trying to take over New York.\u201d And good on Mayor Eric Adams for backing Dickens in her re-election bid ahead of the June 28&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/052622-mayor-eric-adams-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[130472,4997,5042,4998,43,66147,129582,67243,4953,3885,70916,6474],"class_list":["post-465203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-18-22","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-crime","tag-editorial","tag-eric-adams","tag-inez-dickens","tag-lockdown","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-san-francisco","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}