De Blasio, Obama and a Flawed Vision of Liberalism

… In the aftermath of Mr. de Blasio’s landslide victory in 2013, it was tempting to believe that he had pioneered a new style of progressive politics, one that built on President Obama’s coalition of African-Americans, Latinos and liberals. Whereas Mr. Obama twice lost white voters by double digits, Mr. de Blasio won them by a remarkable 11 points.

But instead of transcending the Obama coalition, Mr. de Blasio has become its prisoner. CONT.

Noam Scheiber, New York Times

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