Earth to Democrats: New York voters are fed up with the disastrous, left-leaning status quo.
Per a Honan Strategy Group survey, a jaw-dropping 75% of likely Democratic primary voters believe Gotham “is in a period of crisis”; some 80% are worried about current levels of crime, and 70% are “anxious and fearful” about the city’s future.
The only other times in recent history New Yorkers have felt so bleak was after 9/11 and after the COVID outbreak.
There’s little question why: Every day, they brush shoulders with maniacs and career criminals who’ve been turned loose, thanks to bail-reform lunacy and soft-on-crime DAs and judges.
The lucky ones just have to read about another victim bashed in the head, slashed in the throat or shoved in front of a train.
The unlucky ones live it.
Nearly half (45%) of survey respondents said that if things got any worse, they’d have to join the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the state in recent years.
Hear that, Dems? That’s the sound of your tax base nervously inching toward the exits, thanks to your policies.
If the crime-ridden subways and streets weren’t enough, New Yorkers’ neighborhoods have been taken over by migrant hotel shelters filled with drug-and-gun peddling gangbangers, a nightmare made possible by their tax dollars.
Which makes it also no surprise that a new Siena College poll shows a huge majority, nearly 80%, of New Yorkers across the state support shipping out migrants who’ve been convicted of a crime.
In other words, exactly what President Trump is doing.
But the elitist progressives who lead the city? They were apoplectic over the raids that cleared out migrants with warrants for murder, sexual assault and kidnapping from New York neighborhoods.
Mayoral wannabe Brad Lander called the raids “heartbreaking” and claimed he’d “put [his] own body on the line to uphold sanctuary city laws.”
Rep. Nydia Velazquez wailed: “This mass deportation agenda is targeting our loved ones.”
New York City Council Member Althea Athens said it was “unacceptable that community members are being removed from their homes without due process or transparency.”
“Community members,” in this case, is lefty-speak for “wanted, violent criminals.”
Thankfully, Trump has made it clear that his border crackdown and deportations of dangerous thugs are happening with or without local cooperation.
But why don’t Democratic politicians care that their constituents feel so unsafe and alienated in their own city?
New Yorkers are clamoring for change, and the navel-gazing, out-of-touch leaders who caused the damage are intent on ignoring them.
If those leaders won’t change their disastrous policies, voters can simply change . . . their leaders.
