Political news in the past four years is shocking: Joe Bayeng collapsed on the debate stage, Donald Trump regained power, and the United States may annex Canada. But in comparison, the Maga transformation of New York Mayor Eric Adams seems to be foreseeable.
Since the election, Adams and Trump have popularized his son in Trump International Golf Club in Florida for lunch. On Monday, he accepted the last moment of the last moment of his spokesman said "on behalf of New York City". On Tuesday, he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, an internal media agency in Maga.
"People often say 'you sound like Democrats' and 'you seem to have left the party,'" Adams told Karson. "No, the party left me."
Less than four years ago, this person also called himself "the future of the Democratic Party." It is not difficult to find the cause of the sudden change, and it does not involve any changes in the Democratic Party. It involves multiple felony allegations against Adams and Trump's right to forgive. Trump said before the inauguration that he would consider forgive Adams.
The mayor was charged in a prosecution in September that he accused him of severe corruption, including bribery, violating the financial regulations of the campaign, and carefully designed the travel itinerary of Istanbul (Turkey New York City, if you want). Adams denied any improper behavior and emphasized that only he could deny it. There are so many senior officials in his government being searched, prosecuted or forced to step down, so that New York The magazines can hardly put them all on the cover; when the problem appears, it is out of date. The situation is so bad, and the public opinion survey shows that he may lose to Andrew Cuomo for re -election. Andrew Komo has a record of improper behavior accused for a long time, although he also denies improper behavior.
Adams was not the first Democratic politician to have strange new respect for Donald Trump. Rod Blagojevich (Rod Blagojevich) followed the old road from Governor's Mansion from Illinois to prison, and then created the script that Adams seemed to be using, and finally was forgiven in 2020.
"My Democratic compatriots were not very friendly to him," the former governor said afterwards when he talked about Trump. "In fact, they are very unhappy with him." He even created a useful term: "If you ask what the party's belonging is, I am the rulers of Trump."
Other politicians have also become the rulers of Trump, or at least curious about the rulers of Trump. When the New Jersey Democrat and former Senator Bob Meliner were charged with corruption, he echoed Trump's claims, claiming that the behind -the -scenes forces started to him because of his political view. Don't mind that Merandez was sued by the Biden Department of Justice. He had previously been accused of the Obama Department of Justice, but he escaped the allegations; this time, although he did his best to blame his wife, he was convicted. Henry Cuellar, a Democratic member of the Democratic Party, who was accused of bribery last year, also specifically expressed his willingness to cooperate with Trump. (Queliar denied improper behavior.) Trump seemed to be very happy to accept; after the prosecution, he claimed in the "Truth Society" that Quelia was punished for a tough attitude on border issues.
But the common ground of Adams and Trump is not just a felony charges and love for New York's nightlife. Few politicians are so destined to form an alliance. Both of them are the masters of personality and politics -they are born with extraordinary charm, but they can easily attract people's attention because they are likely to make mistakes and cause huge controversy. They are also thinkers of the overall view of the overall situation. They can explore emotional topics with a grand gesture -especially crime -but poor skills, not very interested in details, and leave these things to the deputy.
It is not a coincidence that the two were Democratic and Republicans in different periods of their careers. For them, it is not important to obey a platform. It is important to let voters unite around a feeling. In addition, they are all naked transactions -according to the federal prosecutor, Adams' cases have reached the degree of crime; as far as Trump is concerned, he tries to use assistance to Ukraine in exchange for investigating Hunter Biden, This is enough to make him impeach. They have a common feeling that they will always be persecuted by those in power, although one of them is the mayor of the largest city in the United States, and the other is starting his second president's term.
Training Trump's benefits to Adams -forgiveness -obvious. What does Trump get from it? People can imagine several possibilities. First of all, Trump is a real estate developer in New York. It is never a bad idea to stand on the right side of the city hall. He definitely noticed that according to the prosecutor, bribes paid to Adams helped him quickly obtain inspection and approval of a building in Manhattan. Trump is still obsessed with the sense of success and belonging in New York, even if he lives elsewhere -this is another thing he might share with Adams.
Politically, Trump has been striving for black voters in blue cities and states, and black voters who hold more conservative views are the core voters of Adams. By embracing Adams, just like he embraced Quelial, Trump also hoped to support him as the goal of political prosecution: he believed that their prosecution showed how the "deep government" hunting the enemy. It doesn't make much sense -Adams and Quelia are Democrats, and they are sued by federal prosecutors in the Democratic Presidential Government -but consistency is never so important for Trump.
Of course, all this may be more considered. The attractiveness between Trump and Adams may be very simple, because the two saw a lot of their own shadows in the game recognition game of each other.