The candidate’s home borough of Brooklyn illustrates the hypocrisy of his rhetoric

De Blasio’s Inequality Dodge

by Kay S. Hymowitz

Bill de Blasio’s campaign theme, inequality in the “two New Yorks,” has hit a nerve. But before he moves into Gracie Mansion, our likely next mayor should go into his Park Slope townhouse and take a long look in the mirror. What he’ll see is a symptom of the disease that he says he wants to cure.

By Bloombergian standards of wealth, of course, de Blasio is a nobody. But then, by that measure, New Yorkers are almost all losers. Pitting the 1 percent against the 99 percent, the Manhattan plutocrats against outer-borough “working families,” de Blasio has caricatured New York’s inequality problem. It may be good politics, but it leads to bad policy.

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