I made mistakes, but... I DID GREAT!

WHEREVER you look these days, Bill de Blasio is assuming a humble pose. He’s busy in yearend interviews and press conferences conceding “mistakes” and insisting he’s learned his lessons, saying “I want to do better.”

The headlines coming out of those sessions give the impression the mayor is embarking on an apology tour. Don’t be fooled. De Blasio is actually taking a victory lap midway through his term. The humble pose is just a pose.

Consider his supposed admission of “mistakes.” He steadfastly refuses to identify even a single one that he made, and instead recites a long list of what he regards as accomplishments. “I feel very good about the sum total of the last two years,” he said a City Hall news conference.

His one concession doesn’t deserve the word — he “admits” only that he hasn’t spent enough time telling New York what good things he’s done. And so the New Year looks as though we’re going to suffer the obnoxious sound of the mayor constantly blowing his own horn.

In that sense, 2016 is shaping up to be a lot like 2014 and 2015. If the mayor has learned anything that would make him a better mayor, he’s keeping it a secret.

Even on what is an obvious and giant goof — his vicious public attack on Gov. Cuomo — he can’t bring himself to say it was wrong. “I’m satisfied it was the right approach,” de Blasio told reporters.

Either he believes that and he’s a loon, or he doesn’t believe it but can’t admit a real mistake. Neither option inspires confidence in his leadership.

When it comes to being stymied in his agenda, de Blasio doesn’t entertain the possibility that his ideas are wrong or unworkable. He only allows that the “status quo doesn’t always yield so easily.”

That’s the real de Blasio. He talks of his “mission” to change the city, giving an evangelical bent to his farleft political agenda, and prefers grandiose declarations and pronouncements of transformational change over straight talk and plain language. If New Yorkers each got a dollar every time he calls something he’s done “extraordinary,” we’d all be as rich as Rockefeller.

If these were mere stylistic flaws, they would be minor annoyances. But the mayor’s habit of routinely proclaiming historic changes makes him look delusional or dishonest. The same pattern is reflected in his big initiatives, where he makes sweeping promises, then, almost in a footnote, pushes the impact off into the dis tant future. After initially denying there was an increase in the homeless street population, he recently rolled out a new program with much fanfare, only to admit later that “it will take years” to get the homeless off the streets.

Something similar happened with his plan to fix failing schools. Again, the results are promised in years, meaning kids in those schools now are doomed.

Ditto for his affordablehousing program — he set a goal of 200,000 units over a decade, and proposed such dramatic zoning changes that it was initially voted down by most community boards in all five boroughs. So it’s unclear whether there will be any impact beyond the ceaseless braying about inequality.

The result is a growing disconnect between the city as it is and the city the mayor envisions. While he’s spinning utopian dreams and congratulating himself, the quality of life is fraying and public disorder is growing.

Again, the homeless problem proves the best example. An audit released Monday by Comptroller Scott Stringer found deplorable conditions in a sample of living units within city shelters.

Out of 101 apartments they visited, the auditors found serious health and safety issues in 88. They cited rats, roaches, mold, blocked fire escapes and a lack of security, conditions Stringer called “shameful.”

Indeed, they are shameful — and they are also almost identical to conditions a separate city investigation found last March. So despite de Blasio’s rhetoric and promises, little or nothing changed in eight months.

The mayor’s lackadaisical habits, combined with his absolute belief in his own righteousness, robs him of credibility and trust. Already, he is so distant from the public that he can’t hold honest townhall meetings, and appears only in friendly settings after his staff screens the audience for dissenters.

This may be the best de Blasio can do, but that doesn’t make it good enough for New York.