Bloomberg’s competence was his most underrated quality

Published March 4, 2020 3:48pm ET



The worst part about Michael Bloomberg’s exit from the Democratic presidential primary is that it leaves the field with no serious managerial competency.

Yes, he was awful on the debate stage, unready to answer criticisms about comments he made about women in the workplace. Yes, he caved to the social justice mob on stop and frisk, a policing policy he had previously defended nearly to the death when he was mayor of New York for a decade.

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