{"id":70242,"date":"2021-06-23T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70242"},"modified":"2021-06-23T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:59:10","slug":"when-you-thought-de-blasio-couldnt-do-any-more-damage-he-departs-with-cultural-marxist-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70242","title":{"rendered":"When you thought de Blasio couldn&#8217;t do any more damage, he departs with a cultural marxist bang."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Delusional de Blasio somehow manages to reach new low on way out the door<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Maureen Callahan<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6220077474001\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe most tone-deaf mayor in New York City\u2019s history has given the most tone-deaf exit interview ever \u2014 tiptoeing<br \/>\nthrough the tulips, quite literally, as the city is ravaged by rampant crime,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/13\/cuomo-says-street-homelessness-under-de-blasio-bad-as-i-have-ever-seen\/\">homelessness<\/a>, lawlessness and trash.<\/p>\n<p>But join him, won\u2019t you, as Bill de Blasio grants a reporter the privilege of sharing his daily 90-minute midday stroll through Prospect Park. It\u2019s not like there\u2019s anything more pressing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Really: If you don\u2019t laugh, you\u2019ll cry. This particular perambulation,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/06\/22\/outgoing-mayor-bill-deblasio-new-york-city-walk-495290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0reported by Politico\u2019s Ruby Cramer<\/a>, went up on primary day, the timing itself a damning indictment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go into the 11th Street entrance,\u201d de Blasio begins, \u201cbecause that\u2019s my street. I wouldn\u2019t go to just any entrance. That\u2019s my entrance. We could go through another entrance, but if you want authenticity, we\u2019ll go to 11th Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The narcissism. The grandiosity. If only de Blasio had brought this level of myopic detail to, say, the business of running New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnthralling\u201d is his description of New York right now, a city he sees recovering easily, gracefully and joyously from the pandemic \u2014 a pandemic he spent, as The Post first reported, taking leisurely morning walks around South Street Seaport, strolling into his morning pressers late, then hopping into his SUV to take yet another lengthy daily stroll through Prospect Park solo, earbuds in ears, head in the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just doesn\u2019t care,\u201d one insider told The Post back then. \u201cInstead of working harder during this pandemic, he is working less. Who thought that was possible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And this was fresh off his run for president of the United States!<\/p>\n<p>Delusion, thy name is de Blasio.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the highlight of his day: these lengthy walks, hot dog in hand as he ponders the existential nature of his mayoralty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery field has a story to me,\u201d he philosophizes. \u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019re humans, who happened at some point to get elected to something? And then that point ends, thanks to God and term limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. A weary city is quite thankful.<\/p>\n<p>Primary day couldn\u2019t come soon enough \u2014 not that de Blasio is impressed with any of the candidates, who he feels, for real, lack a \u201ccompelling vision.\u201d It certainly doesn\u2019t bother him that every Dem except Andrew Yang didn\u2019t want his endorsement and would have rejected it if offered.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does commentary from the average New Yorker offend \u2014 as offered here by this local hero, playing catch with his young son when he spies our derelict mayor lolling about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one wants you!\u201d he yells. \u201cYou\u2019re the worst. You\u2019re the WORST! I CAN\u2019T WAIT FOR YOU TO GET OUT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio, ever impervious to criticism, doesn\u2019t even flinch. Instead, he smiles and waves. \u201cHave a nice day!\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one flaw in this Dispatch from the Outer Limits, it\u2019s this: De Blasio, it seems, is never asked about that other park \u2014 you know, Washington Square, once the jewel of Greenwich Village and now a nightly riot of open drug use, sex and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does he speak to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/02\/locals-gripe-about-recent-rash-of-junkier-graffiti-in-nyc-neighborhood\/\">graffiti and trash that have destroyed Soho<\/a>\u00a0and the West Village, once two of downtown\u2019s most expensive and beautiful neighborhoods. And there\u2019s not a single mention of rising crime and random assaults \u2014 brazen and in broad daylight \u2014 that have lifelong New Yorkers fleeing for the exits before they, too, are randomly slashed, stabbed or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/18\/horrific-shooting-video-shows-why-crime-is-no-1-issue-for-nyc-voters\/\">shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is count the number of moving trucks that continually block streets in every neighborhood. Williamsburg, where I\u2019ve lived for 20 years, was long the most desirable neighborhood in Brooklyn. It\u2019s a ghost town now. I think more people have left than the city knows or is reporting. And that\u2019s true for most neighborhoods. But not for Bill de Blasio, who has always hewed to his own truths, his own sets of facts and his own alternate reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like everything about New York City is super-concentrated now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one way to put it.<\/p>\n<p>So long and farewell, Bill de Blasio, a mayor so incompetent, he couldn\u2019t manage minor snowstorms, punctuality or criticism from The Post, hoping for our demise in a 2015 email \u2014 \u201cprob just wishful thinking,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>That may be the only thing he ever got right.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/22\/delusional-de-blasio-somehow-manages-to-reach-new-low-on-way-out-the-door\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/22\/delusional-de-blasio-somehow-manages-to-reach-new-low-on-way-out-the-door\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delusional de Blasio somehow manages to reach new low on way out the door<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}