Mayor de Blasio just identified the cause of his record-breaking case of sophomore slump in his second year: It’s the press.
That’s right — the self-styled national progressive leader has settled on the same scapegoat as every pathetic Republican politician of the last few decades.
De Blasio complains he’s not getting the soft media treatment he claims his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, received.
“I think the media had a kind of kid-gloves sensibility toward him,” de Blasio told The New York Times. “I think that’s well-established.”
Well-established? That will come as a huge surprise to Post readers — not to mention to Bloomberg himself.
The current mayor must have missed our scathing editorials and front-page stories about Nanny Mike — as well as the famous Post depiction of Bloomberg (after one of his early weekend jaunts to his Bermuda home) on a milk carton as missing.
And The Post was hardly alone.
Mayor Mike certainly read that coverage: He regularly teed off at the press, including The Post, for stories he disliked.
But he never blamed the media for his political problems — though his own standing in the polls at this point in his mayoralty was even lower than de Blasio’s 44 percent.
And Bloomberg sure never claimed publicly that “a lot of people outside New York City understand what happened in the first year of [his mayoralty in] New York City better than people in New York City.”
That fatuous bit of smug self-congratulation came before de Blasio’s public feud with Gov. Cuomo, his across-the-board defeats in Albany and his recent bungling in the face of the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak — not to mention rising public concern over quality-of-life issues.
Stop basking in the cheers of progressive out-of-towners, Mr. Mayor, and start worrying about the day-to-day concerns of average New Yorkers — concerns you can read about in this newspaper.
Nearly all your political problems are self-inflicted. Grow up, and quit whining like a crybaby.