Around the Country in 17 Hours With Michael Bloomberg

New York Times: “There is a way that people generally run for president. And there is whatever Mr. Bloomberg is doing.”

“Looking past Iowa and New Hampshire to focus on the delegate-rich contests that come in the months that follow, Mr. Bloomberg is betting that his zag-while-they-zig electoral strategy and functionally bottomless resources can make him the standard-bearer of a Democratic Party whose 2020 primary has been defined in part by progressive disdain for the billionaire class.”

“It is not quite, as admirers present it, that Mr. Bloomberg is a chess-master whose opponents play checkers; he is more accurately working to bury the board with a gusher of cash so overpowering that everyone forgets how the game was always played in the first place.”

Jonathan Chait: Maybe nominating Bloomberg isn’t a crazy idea.