Anyone who doubts that Democrats haven’t learned a thing from November’s presidential election need look no further than at the calls for Mayor Eric Adams’ ouster.
Democrats are accusing him of being President Donald Trump’s’ “hostage,” because he’s offering to do what the prez wants — i.e., help him deport violent illegal migrants — allegedly in exchange for the Justice Department’s dropping criminal charges against him.
Four deputy mayors quit over the issue Monday.
The truth? Adams is submitting to the people’s will.
Regardless of how it looks. Regardless of the enormous heat he’s taking from open-border, pro-criminal radicals.
For that, Hizzoner — for all his other faults — deserves a healthy heaping of praise.
And if Dems can’t rebound from their prolonged Trump Derangement Syndrome, and stop taking the majority of voters for granted, their downslide (yes, even in bluer-than-blue New York) will continue unabated.
Here’s the latest on Mayor Eric Adams
Do they really want to remain in the wilderness forever?
According to the rules of the #Resistance, anyone who fails to fully oppose Team Trump must not be allowed to wield power in New York.
No matter how much good he’ll do. No matter how much the public supports his policies.
So, yes, both Trump and Adams want violent criminal migrants deported. But so do a whopping 80% of New Yorkers, per a recent Siena poll.
They even back Trump’s overall deportation efforts by an impressive 48%-to-31% margin.
Democrats simply ignore these voters and claim Adams is only doing what they want because of the “leverage” Trump has over him.
That’s because Justice’s decision to drop the charges allows for charge to be refiled later.
(Recall that those four deputy mayors had no problem remaining on board even though Adams was charged with bribery and campaign-finance violations.)
Yet even if there was a “quid pro quo” (though that’s anything but clear), why would voters mind that Adams is doing precisely what they want, no matter his motivation?
Remember, Adams was elected in large part based on his pledge to lower crime.
He talked about fixing sanctuary-city laws and rounding up migrant criminals long before Justice thought about dropping those charges.
And besides, what options did Justice have?
If prosecutors dropped the charges with no possibility they could be refiled, critics would’ve howled even louder.
Nor would it have served the public if the charges remained and Adams was hauled into court. How would he have done the people’s bidding in that case?
Dems simply don’t care about what people actually want. They’ve been hijacked by left-wing extremists out of touch with normal voters and put their ideologies above the interests of everyday New Yorkers.
By contrast, Adams’ instincts — crack down on crime, fix the disastrous criminal-justice reforms, catch and deport violent illegal-migrant criminals, get help for the mentally ill — neatly match voters’ views.
Though basically a liberal, his common-sense visions and beliefs are the future of the Democratic Party, if there is to be one.
Sure, you can criticize him for failing to make enough headway on, say, reducing crime.
But where he has failed, it’s generally the fault of progressive lawmakers in Albany who tie his hands.
Now the heat is on Gov. Kathy Hochul to oust him if he refuses to step down.
She, and those pushing her to remove him from office, ought to know that voters like Adams’ approach.
If they rout the city’s duly elected leader (for doing . . . what, exactly?), they’ll eventually pay a steep price at the polls.
We hope the day will soon come when the Dems act for the common-sense majority and put New Yorkers first, not their internal party politics.
