after hearing him talk...hes basically a blatantly anti-dem michael bloomberg.

dude was supposed to be running as some bipartisan unifier but its been less than a week and he has already let the cat out of the bag and started bashing dems almost exclusively.

'centrist' dems of the schultz variety (and not the doug jones variety) tend to be coastal plutocrats...who are socially liberal but still wanna hoard all of their money and extract resources from the federal government to prop up large corporations.

hes the type of 'independent centrist' that ran in kansas and ended up taking more votes away from the repub gov candidate than the dem.

historically...the people who have split dem votes have done it from the left of the left. nader, stein, etc. this dude isnt anywhere close to that. in fact...he is the complete opposite (anti-union, low taxes on the rich, etc).

the type of dem centrists he is trying to appeal to are generally well educated suburbanites who know the political ramifications of voting for a indie in a contested election (why bloomberg never ran as an indie). they are the same people who revolted against trump and the repub tax plan and wiped the repub party out of previous strongholds like orange county.

i dont see him appealing to them much and costing them a chance to knock trump out of power and restore some financial sanity in washington.



sidenote: they had some 'expert' from the boston globe on morning joe the other day laying out how michael bloomberg has the most likely path to a democratic nomination due to primary structure, potentially monopolizing the moderate subgroup of the dem electorate, and some such other shit. if you wanna know why the pundit class is so clueless when things like donald trump happen...its because they listen to people like that.