Eric Adam﷽s’ mayoralty🎃 is dropping like a rock down a well, and it’s all his fault.
Quinnipiac University pollsters Wednesday detailed the mayor’s astoundingly dramatic fall – a decline with ominous implications as New York enters a new budgeting cycle, neve꧟r mind all its other problems.
The new poll shows Adams with 28% registered voter approval – and a whopping 58% turning thumbs down. It’s the worst mayoral showing since Qꦫuinnipiac began keeping tabs in 1996!
Thus Adams, it seems, is that rare bird whꦆo can’t fool any of the p♈eople, any of the time.
But this should surprise no one.
The fellow wanders from crisis to crisis, deploying rhetoric rather than solutions and rarely ꦦfollowing up – then flipping an occasional a race card when it suits his 🧜purposes.
Nothing seems to be getting done; dark fiscal clouds are building – indeed, the city could be on a rocket ride back to 1977 – while crime and civic disorder fester. And the schools sure aren’t get𒆙ting bཧetter.
It all adds up.
And it is, for sure, confusing.
So focus on this:
Adams, a former cop, made much of violent crime dur♕ing the 2021 election. The rhetoric was unfocused – but he was elected as the closest thing to a law-and-order candidate as contemporary Gotham is likely to produce.
But because he is a reed in thꦕe wind, when ideology came calling he bent.
Sanctuary city in the face of a federal border breakdown? Sure, why not – and so he flopped down a welcome mat for theꦿ wor🔯ld.
And he did this without a meanin🧸gful caution to Washington or Albany about the costs.
Now the bills have come due – financing 150,000 border hoppers ain’t cheap – and among Adams’ recent budget-cutting casualties are the next five scheduled NYPD rookie classes.
Flippity-flop – the 🌠law-and-o𝓡rder mayor turns out to be a de façto defund-the-police guy.
It’s not just the cops, of co💮urse, and folks notice these things – the foolish policy choices, and also the incoherence.
Espec♏ially the i𓄧ncoherence. It makes people nervous – and it makes mayors vulnerable.
And Eric Adams is nothing if not vulnerable right now. He says he is coping with a $12 billion migrant-drive budget shortfall – whate൩ver it may turn out to be, color it huge – and he is without reliable allies anywhere.
The City Council is a hard-left termit🐓e mound dedicated to expanding spending at the expense of the municipal tax base.
The Legislaꦆture, now veto-proo꧅f, has similar sensibilities – and, anyway, Adams has done nothing to court its leadership.
Gov. Hochul is a non-entity.
The top Democrats in Congress – Brooklyn’s own Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries – have made it clear that Goth⛎am is on its own.
Add all that up a🔯nd consider this: ꧃Why should any of those folks help Adams when Adams can’t help himself. Or won’t.
The man is at 28% in the Q-poll – that’s not just below sea level, it’s a the 💞bottom of the Marianas Trench.
Maybe he survives – Abe Beame and David Dinkins, equally hapless in analogous circumstances, di🗹dn’t – but if it’s going༒ to happen, he needs to start now.
Focus, Mr. Mayor.
Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc