The lesson of the 2016 election and the first three years of the Trump presidency is that Democrats hate it when sexist, politically inexperienced, crude billionaires with a long history of racially inflammatory comments try to barge their way into national politics. Just kidding.

It turns out they only oppose these things in President Trump. The rise of Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 primary shows that Democratic criticisms of Trump’s character and qualifications are merely paper-thin attacks rife with hypocrisy.