Experience Sanders Couldn’t Buy, Even With Bloomberg’s Money

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) delivers remarks during the Rev. Al Sharpton Minister's Breakfast at Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 26, 2020. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Mike Bloomberg was elected New York mayor two months after the outrage of Sept. 11, 2001. He took over a city reeling with grief and suffering economic losses tied to the terrorist attacks. Rather than lay off public workers who had performed gallantly in the crisis, he raised taxes on the well-to-do.