Bill de Blasio Finds His Mojo as the Anti-Trump
NEW YORKBill de Blasio, the 6-5 mayor of the nations largest city, slipped in almost unnoticed through a side door in the small community center in Chelsea, where a full-throated anti-Donald Trump resistance meeting was already underway.
Ten days earlier, Trump had been elected the next president of the United States, and New York City, which voted overwhelmingly against him, was still reeling. But anger was starting to find outlets, and one of them was here, where hundreds gathered for a hastily thrown together meeting billed as Rise Together: The American Majority Against Trump.
De Blasios three years in office so far have been marred by a series of disappointments, missteps, and seeming deafness to the politics of the momenta track record that had put the mayor at risk of being taken down by his own party in next years primary. But since the election, a life raft has suddenly appeared: Trump.
As the president-elect sits in his midtown Trump Tower office, assembling an administration overtly hostile to the kind of progressive politics New Yorkers embrace, de Blasio has found a calling. In front of crowds, he can often fail to connect, coming off as the goofy dad or the scolding headmaster who hasnt yet quite grown into the office. Here, in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, he leaned straight in. This is how we fight back! the mayor shouted. Fists were raised.
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