{"id":2556,"date":"2019-11-26T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:00:51","slug":"one-a-republican-can-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/11\/26\/one-a-republican-can-love\/","title":{"rendered":"One a Republican Can Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All IN<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Bloomberg is \u201call-in:\u201d running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;He committed $31 million of his own money to a media blitz beginning this week to start his campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;His strategy:&nbsp;&nbsp;skip the \u201cretail politics\u201d states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and go for the \u201cmedia\u201d states on Super Tuesday and beyond.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a reasonable strategy for a man who is not likely to be popular with committed Dems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Bloomberg has a \u201cdiverse\u201d (from a Democratic position checkered may be a better word) political past.&nbsp;&nbsp;A \u201clife-long Democrat,\u201d he switched to the Republican Party in order to run for Mayor of New York in 2001.&nbsp;&nbsp;After he left the Mayor\u2019s office, he shifted to become an \u201cIndependent\u201d until last year.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then he determined to become a Democrat again, not surprisingly, to take advantage of the opportunity to run for President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg is an \u201cold-school\u201d Republican\u2019s dream.&nbsp;&nbsp;A self-made confirmed multi-billionaire (as opposed to a self-appointed questionable one like the President) his is a true \u201cup by his own bootstraps\u201d story.&nbsp;&nbsp;And he did it on Wall Street.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg has \u201cgood\u201d moderate Democrat views and has put his money where his views are.&nbsp;&nbsp;He founded \u201cEverytown for Gun Safety\u201d which collaborated with the \u201cMarch for Our Lives\u201d student led group after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootings.&nbsp;&nbsp;His philanthropy also has gone to support climate change groups, anti-tobacco causes, and initiatives for innovations by city governments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Money, a great personal story, and moderate Democratic views:&nbsp;&nbsp;what\u2019s the problem Dems?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Power of Primary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the nature of the primary process in America today, that the most motivated in either political party are the ones that show up to vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the Republican side that means that Trump supporters dominate.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the Democratic side it\u2019s a bit more complicated.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is the Sanders\/Warren Social Democrats, but there are also powerful minorities that have a big say in the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black and Hispanic voters make up a large part of the Democratic electorate.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, it was the foreseeable fall off in black voter turnout from Obama to Clinton that made one of the differences in the 2016 election (among a whole host of other factors).&nbsp;&nbsp;For a Democratic Presidential candidate, minority voters are critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg was the REPUBLICAN mayor of New York City.&nbsp;&nbsp;His policies included&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cstop and frisk;\u201d when NYC Police would stop \u201csuspicious\u201d suspects, question and frisk them.&nbsp;&nbsp;The vast majority of those stopped were minority, young and male.&nbsp;&nbsp;That action put a lot of those boys and men into the Court system for minor offenses.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2002, there were almost 100,000 stop and frisk stops.&nbsp;&nbsp;By 2011, when Bloomberg was completing his third term, there were over 685,000 stops. On average through those years, 90% of those stopped were innocent of wrongdoing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyclu.org\/en\/stop-and-frisk-data\">ACLU<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop and Frisk may be the threshold issue that many minority Democratic voters struggle to get past.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloomberg\u2019s stand on Medicare for All (he\u2019s opposed) and taxing the wealthy (he\u2019s in favor of some increase, but not a wealth tax) won\u2019t resonate with motivated Social Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And his seventy-seven year old age is a definite turn-off to millennial voters \u2013 he\u2019s another \u201cold white guy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dems for Bloomberg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So who likes him?&nbsp;&nbsp;For those Democrats so afraid of being outspent by Trump and the Republicans, Mike Bloomberg is the cure.&nbsp;&nbsp;And for those moderate Dems who are afraid of Sanders\/Warren and unconvinced by the other candidates, Bloomberg may well seem like the \u201cshining knight\u201d they\u2019ve been waiting for.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are three groups who absolutely love Mike Bloomberg.&nbsp;&nbsp;The first:&nbsp;&nbsp;actual moderate Republicans who cannot face voting for Trump again. Some of them may be willing to \u201ccross over\u201d and vote in the Democratic primary.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloomberg, a lot like Bill Clinton in his day, is a moderate Democrat, even to the right of Joe Biden.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the present Democratic Primary field heavily slanted to the \u201cleft\u201d he is probably the most&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cright\u201d (not including Gabbard or Delaney).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second group is some of the \u201cmoderate\u201d media.&nbsp;&nbsp;Certain news commentators are jumping on the Bloomberg wagon; abandoning other moderates like Joe Biden.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of those, Tim O\u2019Brien, author of a Trump biography (Trump sued him and lost) and formerly of the New York Times, has actually joined the Bloomberg Campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, as one MSNBC commentator headquartered in NYC stated, \u201c\u2026he\u2019s our Mayor.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally there are those Dems who look at the current candidates and say:&nbsp;&nbsp;they might lose to Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They say: we\u2019ve had a year of examination.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sanders\/Warren are too socialist.&nbsp;&nbsp;Biden, missed his chance and is too old.&nbsp;&nbsp;And besides, he is Trump\u2019s primary target.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yang and Styer, look like they\u2019re running for fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;Klobuchar, Booker, and Buttigieg:&nbsp;&nbsp;are just not \u201cheavyweights\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Bloomberg is the \u201cDemocrat\u2019s Trump\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He\u2019s got all of Trump\u2019s attributes, without being Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;And he has got enough money to buy the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Temptation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For some Democrats, it\u2019s tempting.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloomberg is a \u201csafe\u201d bet, perhaps even safer than Biden.&nbsp;&nbsp;For those who\u2019ve spent each day for the past three years, waking up still in the nightmare of November 9, 2016 \u2013 and there are many \u2013 it might be enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank goodness for the primary system.\u00a0\u00a0Thank goodness that Bloomberg will have to go through the \u201cfire\u201d of campaigning, and not just buying ads on the media.\u00a0\u00a0We will see what Democrats think throughout the country, not just \u201cold white men,\u201d but young and women and black and Hispanic and gay.\u00a0\u00a0The Democratic Party is diverse, and driven, and smart.\u00a0\u00a0Bloomberg won\u2019t buy them off as \u201c Our Trump the Good\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least I hope not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All IN Mike Bloomberg is \u201call-in:\u201d running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;He committed $31 million of his own money to a media blitz beginning this week to start his campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;His strategy:&nbsp;&nbsp;skip the \u201cretail politics\u201d states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and go for the \u201cmedia\u201d states on Super Tuesday and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/11\/26\/one-a-republican-can-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One a Republican Can Love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One a Republican Can Love : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What will Democrats do with Mike Bloomberg entering the race for President? 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