EDITORIAL: Mayor Mike would target those lowbrow pleasures
The former
While other
That's why Mayor Mike is reportedly jumping into the already-crowded Democratic presidential race. He apparently believes that there is a significant portion of the American electorate that is pro-billionaire, anti-socialism, and anti-individual liberty.
What we need is rich people being as rich as they want but never ordinary people eating or drinking what they want.
More champagne on yachts and less Mountain Dew on the stoop.
The one place where Bloomberg aligns most with the Democratic field is on Second Amendment freedoms. That is, he wants to abolish them. Other
The pattern is pretty clear: Bloomberg's main motivating principle is curbing the freedom of the hoi polloi to enjoy things he doesn't believe they should enjoy.
You may question where "the working class has too many things they enjoy" fits within the Democratic Party, but it's really not that out of place. Consider President
Bloomberg sees his lane here. There's some portion of the Democratic base that isn't primarily motivated by economic inequality or by political revolution or simply by defeating Trump, but who are kept awake at night worrying that some working-class white American, somewhere, is enjoying a Slurpee, a Big Gulp, a shooting range, a prayer service, or a mango vape.
For those liberal puritans, they now have their champion.
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