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You know, Cynth, I think he was right about the squeegee guys and street vendors. The squeegee guys were invading people's space and misusing public streets, and the street vendors were doing much the same as well as taking up sidewalk space that in NY is crowded enough already. That stuff was illegal but the law wasn't being enforced. The sex shop stuff was over the top, though, and was symptomatic of a lot of his other authoritarian tendencies: he tried to get ads taken down that criticized him, tried to defund a museum because of an exhibit he didn't like, and other stuff like that. He knows exactly one gear - overdrive - and has no apparent internal censor. Maybe he's mellowed with age, I don't know. But I do know that I wouldn't want him in charge of things like the military or the CIA.
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