‘Angel’ in the outfield

Reader Dennis Middlebrooks of Brooklyn chides me and the rest of New York media for ignoring Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, and assuming that Eric Adams will automatically win the November election.

The Post has been covering the Guardian Angels founder, but it is true that Adams gets the lion’s share of ink, given the ironclad arithmetic of voter affiliation in this city where Democrats outnumber Republicans six to one.

But Middlebrooks points out that it doesn’t have to be that way: “I am nonreligious, pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights, and anti-vouchers and tax credits for private school tuition. Yet I intend to vote for Curtis Sliwa for mayor, and I suspect I am not the only one with similar ‘progressive’ views who will do so. He is an upfront law and order candidate, and rising crime is the major issue confronting the city. The Democratic party in NYC and NY state is utterly corrupt and ideologically bankrupt. Both the city and state have gone down the tubes under Democratic rule.”

As a former Democrat, Middlebrooks is “through with the party on the local and state level, and possibly the national level as well, with the qualification that I would never vote Republican on the national level.”

He likely speaks for a lot of New Yorkers dismayed as they watch their beloved city deteriorate. Sliwa will have to work hard to get enough to cross party lines, but no one can doubt his bona fides on fighting crime.

And if Adams keeps hanging out with Gov. Cuomo, who is as much to blame for today’s crime wave as anyone, he’ll find his support slipping fast.