Bloomberg folks have been trying very hard to project the idea that he's living up to his commitments to the party, but his activity so far has been a faint shadow of what some of his advisers spent Nov thru March promising he would do
Bloomberg has purchased basically unlimited tolerance – if not necessarily love – from the current Dem leadership. In February, @nkulish and I looked at just how much influence Bloomberg has bought in the major institutions of American public life.
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It says a lot about the persistence of this dynamic that Bloomberg – whose candidacy imploded b/c he could not defend his own policing record and treatment of women – would get a prime speaking slot at a convention dominated by themes of racial justice and gender equality.
But what has changed since Bloomberg's campaign is his broader political profile and the aura of political sophistication he once possessed: The finely targeted spending onslaught of the 2018 midterms gave way to screwy billboards on the Vegas strip about Trump liking burnt steak
