Mayor Eric Adams is the last Democrat in his right mind to rebel in New York.

With the far-left Working Families Party actively campaigning against Mayor Eric Adams’ agenda in the run-up to the June City Council primary, it is the duty of all sane New Yorkers to rally around him as the state’s only prominent Democrat willing to speak basic truths.

The WFP intends to use its power in the Democratic primaries to promote crazy ideas like defunding the police and yet more “criminal justice reform” as if the lack of bail etc. wasn’t bad enough. Adams, by contrast, told ABC Sunday: “If you go to the average community of color, or any other community, they’ll tell you, ‘No, we need our police, but we want them to work honestly.'”

The WFP-backed Progressives, who hold leading positions in the Legislature, refuse to listen to crime reports and have indeed just humiliated Gov. Katie Hochul because of her historic selection of Judge Hector Lasalle as head of the state’s high court.

And this despite the fact that the government has repeatedly capitulated to the left regarding bail reform and so on. Only Adams is willing to speak the truth out loud.

He fights for public safety while criminal leftists like state senator Michael Gianaris and Brad Hoylman-Segal stifling any effort to make meaningful changes to our disastrous criminal justice “reforms” – even as crime data sends warning signals: Serious assaults are already up 18% this year compared to the same period in 2022, and burdensome disclosure rules reduce convictions and fire experienced lawyers. DA offices throughout the state.

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When it comes to immigration, leftists like city comptroller Brad Lander simply don’t care about the damage the “invite them in” policy is doing to cities and states facing massive influxes of migrants. Only Adams is ready to say that the White House needs to get the border crisis under control.

The mayor is far from perfect – we wish he was more outspoken – but in the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which dominates this city and state, he leads the angels. With God, sir.