re: The clean, safe, and racially tolerant utopia that the left wants- already exists.

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It wasn’t back to the days of “Drop dead!” or Bernie Goetz, but the Dinkins administration was fricking horrible.

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No question - it was a setback. That's why I didn't credit him. Koch got the ball rolling, Dinkins was a setback, Giuliani did most of the heavy lifting and Bloomie did a decent job of maintaining (other than the tyranny) and de Blasio lit fire to the place, almost immediately.