For years, the Democratic Party has defined itself as distinct from Republicans, mainly on the basis that it's the corporate party that likes minorities, whereas Republicans are climate-denying bigots.

Turns out, the entrance of Bloomberg into the race has exposed that those rules are somewhat flexible.

Just look at his record.

His stop and frisk policy was ruled an unconstitutional violation of rights by a New York

federal court.

He blamed poor, disproportionately black and brown people for the financial crisis.

He pushed for social security cuts and he bankrolled Republicans who oppose climate action.

Heck, he was a Republican until recently, supporting George W. Bush in an address at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

The president deserves our support.

We are here to support him.

And I am here to support him.

Look, I get it.

The number one priority of most Democratic voters is beating Trump.

But it doesn't help us much that we replace him with someone who shares so many of his

worst qualities.

For example, Bloomberg and Trump are actually aligned on the issue of stop and frisk.

They just keep saying, oh, it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group. That may be,

but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing

the murder. In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities

too little. Does that sound familiar? I wouldn't judge you for

thinking he's one turnstile jumper away from taking out a full-page ad in the New York Times

calling for extrajudicial punishment, a la Donald Trump. And it's not just his record on racial issues.

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