Mike Bloomberg is a Republican.

Mike Bloomberg is a Republican who has a history of financially backing and supporting other Republicans. Over Democrats.

Mike Bloomberg is a racist Republican who supported the NYPD’s racial profiling (aka Stop-And-Frisk), and was quoted as saying, “The NYPD stops whites too much and minorities too little.” And he unapologetically maintained that view until as recently as 2018 January of 2019.

The Democratic Party has successfully been infiltrated by Republicans. So please—especially during the primaries—I really don’t wanna hear “Vote Blue No Matter Who” and I really don’t wanna hear how completely valid criticisms of primary candidates is some kind of unreasonable “purity” test.

I get to have standards. I don’t have to blindly praise and accept whoever the DNC and their centrist media outlet, MSNBC, throws in front of me as the “most electable” candidate. I’m black. I want Trump out of the White House as much as anyone. But forgive me if I also don’t want a Republican or a GOP-lite candidate in the White House.

So when progressives criticize centrist candidates like Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg, it’s not anybody’s job to suggest that we need to stfu, stop being “divisive” and just tow the party line. At least not now. Not in the middle of the primaries.

Look, there’s an old saying that Republicans fall in line, and Democrats fall in love. Meaning that Republicans had the necessary discipline to get behind whoever their candidate was, but Democrats had to love their nominee first. And ever since the 2016 election, what I’m seeing is centrists trying to force Democratic voters to “fall in line” and swear allegiance to anyone half an inch better than Trump, even before the primaries had started. Like I said earlier, the Democratic Party has been infiltrated by Republicans. And now they want their voters to behave like Republican voters, who will blindly support even the worst candidates.

Not sorry, but I do not support Peter Buttigieg. I do not support Mike Bloomberg. I do not support Republicans or GOP-lite candidates. I have higher standards. And at this moment in time, while the primaries are ongoing, I still have much better options than “moderates” like Booker, Harris, Buttigieg and Bloomberg.

Anyway, Mike Bloomberg is a Republican.