Giuliani got “lucky” that he was in office on 9/11. He wasn’t a particularly good mayor and plenty of people knew it but he managed to turn that into a lot of goodwill. Now that he’s shown his ass repeatedly, people are losing the rose-tinted glasses big time. Adams just decided he wasn’t gonna wait 15 years to make people hate him. He’s an overachiever.
Giuliani was re-elected before 9/11 because he was “tough on crime” and crime declined dramatically while he was in office. By the time 9/11 happened, he was not eligible to run for mayor again due to term limits.
Yeah, I remember him instituting blatantly unconstitutional policies like “stop and frisk”. I’m still not sure how he got away with it or how people didn’t realize he was a fascist.
Giuliani got “lucky” that he was in office on 9/11. He wasn’t a particularly good mayor and plenty of people knew it but he managed to turn that into a lot of goodwill. Now that he’s shown his ass repeatedly, people are losing the rose-tinted glasses big time. Adams just decided he wasn’t gonna wait 15 years to make people hate him. He’s an overachiever.
Giuliani was re-elected before 9/11 because he was “tough on crime” and crime declined dramatically while he was in office. By the time 9/11 happened, he was not eligible to run for mayor again due to term limits.
Yeah, I remember him instituting blatantly unconstitutional policies like “stop and frisk”. I’m still not sure how he got away with it or how people didn’t realize he was a fascist.
He got lucky in that a lot of the reasons for the nationwide decrease in crime happened during his administration.
You also had enough people in NYC happy that the city was becoming more orderly.