After a hilarious and humiliating showing on Super Tuesday, where Michael Bloomberg won zero states (just the territory of American Samoa) despite wasting $500 million, the billionaire is finally dropping out of the Democratic race. This is good news for all those who reject elitism, hypocrisy, and care about our constitutional freedoms and civil liberties.
The flaws in Bloomberg’s candidacy are almost too numerous to count. We should all be thankful that even Democratic primary voters have seen the light.
#BREAKING: @MikeBloomberg is ending his campaign.https://t.co/i3Rp2A6Ulr pic.twitter.com/cJ5NYc0y05
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 4, 2020
It would have been grossly hypocritical for the Democrats to nominate Bloomberg, given that he is everything they claim to hate about President Trump: a sexist, out-of-touch billionaire who disdains the Constitution and has a suspect record on race relations.
Remember, Bloomberg has a long record of alleged sexism that, while not rising to the level of sexual assault, demonstrates that he’s a crude man with little respect for women. Here’s one example I previously covered:
Other “Bloombergisms” (sexist comments Bloomberg made openly, sometimes even to journalists) include reportedly saying that “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.”
This is really just the tip of the iceberg. As competitor Elizabeth Warren rightly noted, Bloomberg also reportedly mocked women as “horse-faced lesbians” and for years used nondisclosure agreements to silence women who would speak out against him. (Bloomberg did release several women from NDAs in the last few weeks after Warren’s attacks hit home.)
So, too, the former New York City mayor has a simply shocking record toward the black community. For decades he supported (up until it became politically inconvenient) the racially discriminatory policy of stop and frisk, which allowed police to engage in profiling and unconstitutionally stop and search mostly minority men on the streets without any evidence of wrongdoing.
As if this all isn’t enough, Bloomberg’s policy record also shows a complete and utter disdain for freedom. He wants to ban everything from large sodas to e-cigarettes and has openly admitted that he thinks poor people are too stupid to be trusted to plan their own finances.
Bloomberg has always been emblematic of the toxic big-government centrism that has plagued the Democratic Party’s establishment for years. Kudos to Democratic primary voters for sending the sexist billionaire packing, and proving that no matter how much you spend, money still can’t buy an awful candidate the election.
