* Bloomberg is a Democrat this year, right?

Though I don’t think Bloomberg is actually any more prepared than the others for the anti-Semitism, for the gun nuttery, for the complete cognitive dissonance of the devoted followers of a nepotistic multimillionaire going nuts about the wealth of a billionaire, and much more that will predictably come his way. Money won’t buy his way out of that. And so far in his limited public appearances, when challenged from his left, he’s tended to default into the “come on, be sensible” and “let’s be civil” kinds of responses that are just not going to work at all with Trump.

I’m kind of astonished that almost no one inside the political/economic elite seems capable of breaking down and learning from what Trump did in the Republican primaries in 2015-16. He emasculated every single one of the other candidates and they just stood there dumbfounded and helpless. Frankly, if Rubio, Cruz or Jeb Bush had crossed the stage and slugged Trump, they might have been charged with assault, but they might also have won the nomination. All these smart people with all this political experience and yet they are completely incapable of figuring out what they’re dealing with here.

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