“It is certainly not a progressive agenda,” Mr. Brisport said. “That’s Mayor Adams’ agenda.”
Supporters of Mr Adams argue that despite the mayor’s aggressive stance on law enforcement issues, he has much in common with the party’s progressive wing, noting planned investments in housing public health, child care and mental health services.
They also note that Mr. Adams has just won an election, and is therefore tasked with leading as he sees fit.
Even before taking office, Mr. Adams took a defiant tone to leftists, rejecting incoming City Council members by saying he would ignore written pleas. End solitary confinement on Rikers Island. “Like it or not,” he said, “I am the mayor.”
Evan Thies, an adviser to Mr. Adams, said that “it is important to realize that the mayor and many of his critics from far left start in the same place” – as working-class New Yorkers do. activists, often come from “underserved communities” – and want the same things, including equality, affordability and a “higher quality of life”.
“So his message to them is: We are prioritizing the same people,” Mr. Thies said. “Let’s start there and then talk about short-term and long-term solutions.”
Mr. Adams, 61, nearly twice the age of the congresswoman, is the product of New York City’s classical political upbringing. Trendy in the trenches of machine politics in Brooklyn, he enjoys communicating through street corner interviews and tabloid headlines, which he has attempted to create regularly with a series of night on the town, trumpet. his swagger as a selling point.
And while his administration uses Twitter as a way to amplify city and policy announcements, the mayor has made it clear his disdain for the medium, telling a nightly crowd. that “the social network does not choose a candidate”.
