Back in 2016 and 2020 when some were predicting a Trump victory in New York, I was telling people that it was structurally impossible. This was no longer Giuliani’s New York City. The demographic changes were too profound to make that possible.
Lee Zeldin was a great candidate and his campaign may have helped Republicans take the House, but his numbers in New York City were always going to be deeply constrained by the completely toxic urban woke politics, which served as a dam, the way cities always do, for Republicans. Despite Orthodox Jews and Asians rallying to vote for him, he lost. And if you want to understand why, consider these ballot measures passing by Soviet election numbers.
Voters in New York City easily approved three ballot measures proposed by leaders of the city’s Racial Justice Commission.
Residents of the nation’s largest city voted to create a new racial-equity bureaucracy that will include a chief equity officer, following the advice of the commission that was created last year by former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The first proposal residents passed will add a preamble to the city charter that acknowledges the city has a “grave” history of “injustices and atrocities,” while declaring the city will be “just and equitable city for all” and that “diversity is our strength.” The measure passed with 72.3% of the vote, according to the unofficial results from the city’s Board of Elections.
Another proposal, which passed with 69.8% of the vote, approved the amendment of the city charter to establish an Office of Racial Equity that will be headed by a chief equity officer. The newly created office will be tasked with a racial-equity commission that will guide the city’s racial justice priorities and require all city agencies to produce a racial-equity plan every two years.
The third proposal, which passed with 81% of the vote, requires the city to establish a cost of living metric that will “provide a clearer picture of the racial wealth gap” in New York City, which will “guide the City’s decisions as it develops and administers programs and services.”
These 70-80% numbers reflect that the Giuliani electorate, the white working class, has mostly disappeared from New York City outside Staten Island. Brooklyn and Queens, once white working-class strongholds, are overrun by third world immigrants. Between the white lefties who dominate parts of Manhattan, immigrants and minorities, the balance of power you saw in New York City movies of the 80s has shifted comprehensively.
And part of it can be attributed to Guiliani’s success in cleaning up New York City. The city became prosperous, safe and a party center. Much as conservatives are warning about the exodus into Texas, that happened to the city.
Forget a conservative electorate here. Between the jihadist and hipster and gang neighborhoods, the enclaves and the wokes, there isn’t a significant electorate in New York City that doesn’t hate America.
And I say this as a nearly lifelong and heartbroken New Yorker.
BruceRobert says
Racial and wealth equity in New York City?? The great migration of the intelligent, responsible and hard working out of the City began with Covid…. This will complete the transition. This is the point where the last of ‘other people’s money’ is spent….
Let the chimps feed themselves.
Westman says
The Covid lockdown damage, the ridiculous business real estate leasing demands, taxes, and groomed dependents will put New York City into its second bankruptcy. Business is leaving and shopping the populace, without paying, is on the rise.
Westman says
Very subtle…laughing. Appropriate.
That snapshot, above, is from the original movie, “Death Wish”. Charles Bronson at the door.
James Lincoln says
I thought so, Westman, but I wasn’t sure.
Interestingly, my favorite Charles Bronson movie is Mr. Majestyk (1974). I guess I like actors playing heroes who are vastly underestimated.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071866/
Wellington says
New York City is my least favorite place in America of all places I have visited in America—and I have visited a great deal of America over my lifetime. NYC is dirty, noisy, expensive, crowded, hard often times to get into with a car (or out) etc., and it is loaded with silly people who think they are wise people (and so many of them not only don’t appreciate America but despise America). Yes, it has some great attractions, such as museums, Broadway and restaurants, but the parts are always greater than the whole and the best places in America or in any country is where the whole is even greater than the parts. NYC gets an “F” from me in this regard.
Just passing through it is a negative, let alone actually spending time there as I have had to on numerous occasions. If only America could get rid of its largest four or five cities it would be so much better for America. As Thomas Jefferson opined, cities are the breeding ground of filth and pessimism and many other negatives. I for one agree wholeheartedly with the Sage from Monticello (who is currently in ill repute with woke fools aplenty and just one more reason why I laud him). After all, just look to cities in America (and in many other Western countries) where Leftism is most “vibrant.” QED.
Westman says
I agree with your assessment, Wellington. To me, New York and LA are a similar pair. A relatuve lived there for years. Young dreamers go to New York for a bite of the Big Apple and get a molecule. Reminds me of that song, “Do You Know The Way To San Jose? ….. And all the stars who never were are parking cars and pumping gas. ”
I’m glad to be where I am. People smile, say hi in passing, and they meant it.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t know about now, but as a former LA resident, I’d disagree w/ that statement. As I describe below, New York is a very unfriendly place. Not so LA, or at least the LA I knew in the mid 90s. I lived in Woodland Hills – the same place that Patrice Colliers bought a mansion w/ her BLM loot 2 years ago, and all those places – Malibu, Venice Beach, Skid Row, et al were beautiful places worth visiting anytime, and everyone was friendly. Driving was of course chaotic, but nothing as bad as New York, where a turn signal would be like a third world country – an indication to the cars behind you to hurry up and close the gap before you can change lanes. Of course, I wouldn’t try going to LA, or even California today!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I visited New York sometime in 1998, from what I remember. It was a distinctly unfriendly place from everywhere else I’ve been in this country, which has by now been quite a few. Like I accidentally crossed the GW Bridge into New Jersey, and after taking an exit to reverse myself, at a toll booth, when I asked the toll officer a question, she just gave me a really dirty and weird look w/o saying anything. That was another thing about NYC: I had to pay tolls every few miles, and have exact change: in fact, a good percentage of my expense in NY that year just went on tolls. On paper, it seems a great place, but it’s one of the last places in the world that I’d wanna go, if my life depended on it
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Daniel
Looks like you are one more of those New Yorkers who should be headed to Florida. I don’t care how much I love a place: ultimately, there will come a point where I’ll pick up and leave