Last but not at all least, there is their strikingly similar views on gender issues and equity — including the making of frequent offensive comments about women’s appearance and intellectual capacity, fostering workplaces marked by flagrantly misogynist culture, and the widespread use of non-disclosure agreements in the settling of lawsuits with former female employees over hostile work environments.
Oh, and don’t forget that while some of us worry about whether Trump might indulge his authoritarian proclivities by seeking to stay in office beyond the end of a second term, Bloomberg already did exactly that, strong-arming New York’s City Council into changing its term-limits law in 2008 to allow him to serve a third term.
All of it sounds downright Trumpian.
Except it’s probably more accurate to say that what it really is — all of it — is an expression of the shared outlook of New York City’s billionaire masters-of-the-universe overlord class.
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