Trump’s New York Values Donald Trump is running against two things—immigration and free trade—that made New York City great again. Daniel Henninger
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-new-york-values-1460585572
The presidential primaries are in New York now, with it not beyond imagining that Donald of Trump Tower will sweep the state’s 95 delegates Tuesday by winning all of its 27 congressional districts. If so, Ted Cruz can blame it and his possible third-place finish on that dumb remark about “New York values.”
He says it won him the Iowa caucuses. We’re not in Iowa anymore, senator.
Sen. Cruz had a point, but he blew it by not describing it so that even many New Yorkers would agree.
One example: The greatest moral issue in America is four decades of failed inner-city public schools. In New York, local liberals won’t lift a finger for minority-district schools in east Brooklyn, Harlem or the Bronx.
Instead, Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, like Jerry Brown in blue California, stay afloat on public unions and a liberal urban sea of smug, yuppie self-absorption. Donald Trump learned this week that these people don’t even bother to vote. In 2013, New York’s now-unpopular Mayor de Blasio won with 17% of eligible voters (turnout was 24%).
New York, after its primary, will revert to its status as a blue-state automaton. Just now, New York’s political values are a good subject.
Hillary Clinton this week is defending herself against charges that as senator, she never delivered on her promises to beleaguered counties upstate. She blames George Bush’s economic policies.
More revelatory of New York values, though, is Vermonter Bernie Sanders, ranting about “Wall Street” and “bankers.” To be clear: Those people, much mocked of late for living on Park Avenue and such, annually give tens of millions to support charter schools, scholarships to parochial schools, social entrepreneurs, and innumerable nonprofits and arts institutions. Most, Republican and Democrat, would do it without the tax deduction.
Bernie is praising New York for its total ban on hydraulic fracking. Let me rephrase that as a local political value. New York City to upstate New York: Drop dead.
Donald Trump projects himself as the embodiment of “New York, New York,” the ethos of making it big as sung by Frank Sinatra at the end of Yankees home games: “Top of the list, King of the hill, A-number-one!” CONTINUE AT SITE
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