AMERICA IN CHAOS Get your head out of sand, Blaz, pols rage

New York City pols from across the political spectrum blasted Mayor de Blasio for being in “denial” over rampant looting in Manhattan on Monday night.

“The mayor is in denial about the magnitude of the city’s failure,” progressive Councilman Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) said Tuesday. “The wreckage speaks for itself.”

Torres’ district is one of two in the central Bronx that saw rampant looting, fires and even an attack on a police officer.

“Police were just letting it happen,” one Bronx business owner told the Daily News on Tuesday.

“I would love to live in the mayor’s alternate reality because it feels like a much more pleasant place from what I saw yesterday,” Torres said.

He was referencing de Blasio’s contention earlier Tuesday that “there is no such thing as being able to loot with impunity.

“I am so sick of these efforts to mischaracterize reality,” Hizzoner fumed at a press conference. “I’m never going to accept anyone even implying that something would be tolerated.”

While NYPD officers made about 700 arrests, according to Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, New Yorkers were horrified at widely reported scenes of people pillaging stores in Manhattan and the Bronx without being arrested.

State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat whose downtown district was among the hardest hit, acknowledged the “difficult line that police are walking” between respecting peaceful protesters and cracking down on looters.

But he said: “I wish they’d spend more time protecting the property from looting than roughing up protesters.

“The protesters seem to be managing themselves well enough,” he added.

Councilman Joe Borelli (RS.I.) derided de Blasio’s characterization of Monday night’s looting, which came as the mayor is resisting President Trump’s calls for the National Guard to be deployed.

“He is in an alternate universe because the number of first-hand witnesses and TV cameras covering the looting makes it impossible to deny,” the conservative councilman said of Hizzoner.

While Torres accused de Blasio of responding to chaos in the Bronx too late, a pol representing a neighboring district praised the mayor’s efforts.

“I called upon him last night,” Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D-Bronx) said. “He stopped whatever he was doing, he came over … I’m grateful.”