Comrade communist Democrat Bill de Blasio who is a likely 2020 Democrat candidate is now comparing himself to Gandhi for running New York City like the communists used to run the Soviet Union.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio compared himself to Mahatma Gandhi a wide-ranging interview with Politico when asked about why his progressive agenda has not taken hold nationally.
The article by Edward-Isaac Dovere — accompanied by an audio interview — was titled, “What’s Bill de Blasio’s Problem,” and posed the question: “Democratic insiders can’t stand the progressive New York mayor and want him to pipe down, despite his record of real accomplishment back home. What gives?”
The article noted that de Blasio has been criticize even by allies for taking his political message national – even though he was reelected with 66 percent of the vote in November and succeeded on securing universal pre-kindergarten, expanding affordable housing, and other achievements in his first term.
Dovere asked de Blasio about the “fizzling” of his progressive agenda.
“Give me a break. So every time someone tries something and it doesn’t work, it invalidates anything else they might do going forward?” de Blasio said. “Well tell Thomas Edison that, and Henry Ford, and you know tell Mahatma Gandhi. How many people fell on their faces along the way trying things, experimenting with things, had setbacks? There’s no leader who hasn’t had setbacks.”