Eric Adams stands nearly alone against the far left

Turning New York City into San Francisco — a fetid sink of dysfunction and disorder — would be no small task.

But never doubt that it’s doable.

Nor that Gotham’s lunatic left is working hard to make it happen.

So spare a kind thought for Mayor Adams. He’s not exactly that little Dutch lad with his finger in the dike, holding back the deluge — but, adjusting for circumstances, close enough.

He certainly stands apart from fellow Democrats who advocate for crime and cultural disorder in the name of social progress.

And while he often doesn’t go far enough, Adams is a lion compared with, say, Kathy Hochul and Chuck Schumer — cowed by the progs even though they know better.

Here’s what it has come to: Apart from Adams, the only New York Democrats talking common sense on public policy these days are two former governors whose futures are — presumably — far behind them.

An increasingly vocal Andrew Cuomo over the weekend ripped into Biden administration immigration policy, and his predecessor in Albany, David Paterson, criticized the arrest Friday of subway samaritan Daniel Penny.

Their remarks were tempered and reasonable — that is, pretty much reflective of what Adams has been saying.

So how is this for a situation: Two has-beens and one lonely incumbent, standing against a radicalized Democratic establishment in defense of a bruised and progressively — if not accidently — vulnerable city?

It’s not just the politicians, of course.

Also Friday, when Adams told the graduating class of CUNY law school that once upon a time he had been a cop, he was jeered.

No surprise there, of course — CUNY Law has been a hard-left rats’ nest since it was established in 1983 — but the demonstration was instructive.

For how difficult is it to imagine the new grads, clutching their heavily taxpayer-subsidized diplomas, rushing off to help Alvin Bragg not prosecute crime?

Less clear is the eagerness of municipalities to finance self-subversion.

CUNY Law is Exhibit A here, but there are plenty of folks who think much more of that is in order — and that Adams isn’t doing nearly enough to accelerate the process.

Both New York magazine and The New York Times just took pains to point out that Hizzoner is substantially out of step with his party’s mainstream.

Or, as the Times put it: “Left-leaning New Yorkers say the mayor is moving the city in a more conservative direction on issues like policing, rent and providing shelter to those in need.”

New York lefties surely are saying just that — which reflects their fundamental foolishness — but it’s also ludicrous criticism of a fellow who’s about to convert an iconic hotel smack in the middle of Manhattan’s midtown business district into a migrant mecca.

Really.

Turning the Roosevelt Hotel into a hospitality suite for border-jumpers is precisely what post-pandemic Manhattan doesn’t need — not with its vacancy-wracked office towers and slowly recovering tourism trade. But it’s just what this “more conservative” mayor is delivering.

Yet Adams seems to have no choice — Joe Biden has seen to that, and the mayor is on the outs with the White House for saying so out loud.

Adams is also in trouble for supporting reasonable law enforcement; for standing up to anarchical demonstrations; for opposing confiscatory taxation and ruinous residential rent rules — and for appointing a schools chancellor who respects basics. Among other good things.

The lefties hate him for it.

But they want San Francisco, and Adams doesn’t.

For that alone, strike the man a medal.

bob@bobmcmanus.nyc