De Blasio’s determination to be a wrecking ball was apparent at his inauguration.
The ceremony was laced with insults aimed at the city’s advances and Bloomberg, seated in the front row, was treated like a dog treats a fire hydrant. Harry Belafonte called the city’s justice system “Dickensian” without acknowledging that incarceration rates plummeted by 36% under Bloomberg as crime also plummeted.
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Later, Sanitation Department Chaplain Fred Lucas Jr. called the city a “plantation,” an outrageous slur magnified by de Blasio’s comment that he had no problem with the inflammatory remarks.
Alas, it was all downhill from there, as New Yorkers soon discovered that the new guy harbored a trifecta of enormous defects.
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