I was getting together with some New York City friends.\u00a0 We were at a local Chinese restaurant that we have been known to frequent.\u00a0 Full disclosure, I had the chicken chop suey because the kung pao chicken is too spicy so soon after my Christmas gorge fest.<\/p>\n
We eventually got around to talking about Daniel Penny and his surprise acquittal by a New York City jury.\u00a0 And then we talked about mayor Eric Adams and his trouble with the FBI.\u00a0 It was agreed that he was being targeted not because he was guilty of the crimes he probably did commit but because he had complained about the outrageous scourge of illegal aliens that the city was being forced to house and feed.<\/p>\n
I said I thought that maybe after Trump takes office, he might cut a deal with Adams to have pressure put on the judges and prosecutors persecuting Trump in exchange for a pardon on the charges the FBI has brought against Adams.\u00a0 Of course, I said this tongue in cheek.\u00a0 New York Democrats will never stop attacking Trump until he cuts off federal funds to New York.\u00a0 So, if he helps Adams, it will only be because he wants to make a deal with Adams to deport the New York illegals.<\/p>\n
And then we talked about New York City\u2019s future.\u00a0 Basically, the crime and dysfunction has gotten so bad that even \u201csafe\u201d neighborhoods like Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn were experiencing levels of violent crime never seen before, even in the 1990s.\u00a0 And outrages like the illegal alien who set a female subway rider on fire and watched impassively as she burned to death.<\/p>\n
I asked whether it seemed likely that the disastrous conditions would elicit a powerful reaction to restore law and order and save the city.\u00a0 The answer I got was no.\u00a0 They felt there wasn\u2019t the will to fix things.\u00a0 The elites who sponsored Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams as mayors wouldn\u2019t change course no matter the consequences.\u00a0 The were intent on enforcing progressive policies regardless of the consequences.\u00a0 Of course, my friends freely admit that these elites will eventually abandon New York City for safer suburbs once their families are at risk in the city.\u00a0 And once the people with the money abandon New York City it will begin to look like Philadelphia and Newark and eventually Detroit.\u00a0 So that was their take.\u00a0 New York City is in its death spiral.\u00a0 The crime that the Democrats unleashed after the summer of George Floyd will be the cancer that kills Gotham by the sea.<\/p>\n
It’s a funny thing.\u00a0 Several years ago, I returned home to my old neighborhood.\u00a0 And it was basically unrecognizable.\u00a0 The new immigrants there had taken over and made the place their own.\u00a0 Well, even if it made me a little sad to see my childhood memories thoroughly erased, I could understand that it was the nature of cities like New York.\u00a0 But knowing that the city would be utterly destroyed is different.\u00a0 It\u2019s completely unnecessary.\u00a0 A city full of immigrants from all corners of the earth needs law and order even more than some homogeneous ethnic enclave.\u00a0 Everyone needs to feel like the law is there to protect them from chaos.\u00a0 The fact that the progressives have declared law and order racist is proof that they don\u2019t deserve to govern.\u00a0 But it may take the destruction of every blue city to prove to everyone in this country that fact.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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