[EternalVigilance]

“He just thought that sometimes you go partways to get there, let people adjust and then go the rest of the way,” Bloomberg said yesterday.

[justshutupandtakeit]

IF Rudy said that it only goes to show that he does NOT want to ram things down people's throats. But a manifestation of concern for smokers gets transformed into Nazi-like behavior by those who hate the man.

A real dictator would just say "ban it all, ban it now, ban it everywhere and screw the smokers who don't like it".
Most people would not object even to that approach.