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It’s like a lefty version of “Back to the Future.”

Online samples of the new municipal ID card bear some suspiciously specific 1980s nostalgia for Mayor de Blasio — as a dummy ­image of the card gives the bearer’s birth date as March 16, 1988.

The birthday on the sample ID card is March, 16, 1988.Dennis A. ClarkThe birthday on the sample ID card is March, 16, 1988.Dennis A. Clark

That happens to be a day President Ronald Reagan sent troops to Honduras to stop incursions by the leftist Sandinistas from neighboring Nicaragua. It’s also the day Oliver North was indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal.

De Blasio himself visited Nicaragua in 1988 as part of his youthful flirtation with the socialist Sandinista ­government.

City Hall said the date was nothing more than a coincidence. But not everyone is so sure.

“I doubt that’s a coincidence,” said state Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R-Troy). “If so, it’s an ­unbelievable coincidence.”

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