Why is the kid walking around looking like JJ Walker in a 1970s sit com? And talk about pushing the race card in your face!
The beauty of this is that the GOP candidate can appeal to stop-and-frisk voters. Given the immutability of gun control in NYC, most moderates and conservatives there probably support stop-and-frisk.
Well, his look may actually be a little more effective. He looks like a leftover black hippie preserved in amber...but that’s ok, because he might have more credibility that way, and in any case, that “look” is coming back.
When I was a teenager, most of the guys at the leftwing special public high school I attended in NY wanted to look like lefties from the 1930s (their parents’ generation) and even brought out cloth caps that hadn’t been worn by real working men since - well, the 1930s. Once in a while, I’d see caps like that on some ancient mannie in a Riker’s cafeteria on Broadway, but otherwise I saw them only on my fellow students.