“Authoritarian regimes gain strength by undermining local institutions and ignoring community voices,”Timoth Snyder writes on his substack today. As in Trump’s Washington, so in New York City, where City Hall lies to us over and over again, institutes policies to shut out the voices of its citizens. Mayor Adams “City of Yes” is all about giving his real estate developer contributors carte blanche and stifling residents ability to resist.
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