The voters of New York City liked what Bill de Blasio did. In the end, they just didn’t like him. freedlander reports
Bill de Blasio in March 2021. Photo: Erica Lansner/Redux He should have been a contender. As backbenchers and prattling senators piled into the 2020 race for president, Bill de Blasio entered as the manager of the nation’s largest city, overseeing a police force the size of a small army, a school system that had more children in it than the entire population of seven different states, and the successful response to not one but two infectious-disease outbreaks.
“I would go to these parties and I would have to tell people, ‘Look, everything is okay!’ ” says Alicia Glen, a former Goldman Sachs executive who served five years as deputy mayor for housing and economic development. “The Chardonnay is still flowing! The lawns are getting mowed! We are trying to build a better and fairer city. Just because you don’t like the guy and he isn’t one of us, at the end of the day it is actually okay.
Some 20 months into the job, de Blasio had already set his sights elsewhere. He decided to make a play in the 2016 presidential race, gathering a group of left-wing lawmakers and celebrities like Susan Sarandon to launch a progressive answer to Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” and forcing the candidates to attend his forums and sign on to his agenda if they wanted his support.
For some politicians, this kind of pressure can create an esprit de corps among the staff. But the day-to-day grind of working under de Blasio mostly left staffers embittered.“An arrogant ass,” says another adviser.If Bloomberg’s approach was to hire the best people and then trust that they would get the job done, de Blasio increasingly withdrew to a smaller and smaller circle of City Hall advisers.
But the center of gravity of what it means to be a progressive has changed since de Blasio licked his palm and did the smackdown back in 2013. It is now less Park Slope and more Bushwick, more Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and less, well, Bill de Blasio. His defenders like to say that the scorn he engenders comes from white elites offended at his multiracial family.
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