Mike Bloomberg deserves thanks, not derision

“US media tycoon Michael Bloomberg exited the Democratic presidential race and endorsed frontrunner Joe Biden on Wednesday, after blowing more than half a billion dollars on a gamble that failed to inspire voters.” That’s the dismissive way one wire service began its article and that’s the way many others saw the Mike Bloomberg story. Schadenfreude was on display as we learned that Bloomberg had “crashed and burned” in the primaries. (Recall the myth of the overly ambitious Icarus, who approached the Sun too closely.) Donald Trump,...