Michael Bloomberg argued that Xi Jinping is “not a dictator” in an ostensible bid to occupy the “neo-Stalinist” lane of the Democratic primary. EricLevitz writes
Bloomberg with Wang Qishan, vice-president of the People’s Republic of China. Photo: Rosland Rahman/AFP via Getty Images At first glance, Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for the Democratic nomination looked like the answer to a question no one asked.
It’s now clear, however, that Bloomberg is casting a wider net. In a recent interview with PBS — which recirculated on social media on Sunday — the former New York mayor signaled that he intends to run in the “unrepentant Stalinist” lane of the Democratic primary. Asked by Firing Line’s Margaret Hoover about how the U.S.
Okay: Michael Bloomberg is probably not making a conscious play for the “kratom-track” Maoist vote in South Carolina. But it is remarkable how much the patron saint of neoliberal paternalism’s views on China overlap with those of “tankie” Twitter. It’s hard to imagine that a figure like Sanders or Elizabeth Warren could have argued that Xi is not a dictator — and that the Chinese Communist Party is accountable to majoritarian opinion — without suffering broad bipartisan condemnation.
So Bloomberg’s initial answer is a non sequitur at best, and his subsequent ruminations on the character of Xi’s regime are something worse.
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