Even Buttigieg and Biden are going after Bloomberg for the baldness of his campaign spending. And his staffers are getting banned from social media for astroturfing.
Even if there’s a practical why the fuck not case for going along with it. Bloomberg’s spending is turning into a negative storyline in its own right. At a certain point directly engaging with it is maybe more of a problem for any other candidate than it is a benefit.
That sort of speaks to the dumbfuckery of his run. He’s not well liked across the board in NY, and not well known outside of NY. He’s not a consensus figure, not involved in Democratic politics. He hasn’t held elected office in nearly a decade. His major connections are to the investor class who many play both sides, and vote GOP. And to the media, where he’s highly visible because he’s part of their industry.
His major case for his campaign is that he can beat Trump because he’s rich. Not really anything on a policy or movement front. And he’s barrelled directly into the divisive spat he wants to blame on progressives. On behalf of a subset of big money donors that seem to be the prime instigators of that spat, for the sake of wining that spat.
So he doesn’t exactly have fertile ground for actually building support, outside of media assumptions that he sounds like the sort of candidate that can appeal to some nebulous average American.
If his actual interest is in using his money as a hammer to undercut Trump. Running is kinda tainting that attempt.
