What Does Michael Bloomberg Think He’s Doing?
The former mayor could go down as the white knight of establishment Democrats, a secret agent for democratic socialism, or a real-world experiment in the limits of plutocracy.
Michael Bloomberg built his business and political career on the accumulation and analysis of data, which is the fossil record of history—of precedent. Which makes it all the more unusual that his road to the presidency doesn’t have any.
His self-funded campaign? “” says . His gambit to ignore every primary and caucus in the month of February to plow hundreds of millions of dollars into a Super Tuesday ad blitz in March? “,” says Fox News. And the reaction from those ad-blighted Super Tuesday states? and have a word for it, and you can bet it starts with a . In polling averages, Bloomberg’s national support hovers around —not terrible for a candidate who’s been in the race just over 70 days, but
