Dull and Duller

Why is Bill de Blasio running for President?

The New York City mayor will tell you that it's because he stands out among the twenty-odd Democratic presidential candidates because he's a progressive who fights for working families.  And he is indeed the only progressive who fights for working  families.  Except for Bernie Sanders.  And Elizabeth Warren.  And Andrew Yang.  And others I could name but I won't.  Geez, Bill, even so-called moderates like Tim Ryan fight for working families - working families who can't afford to live in New York City.

But, unless you're a single guy looking to date a model, you may not want to.  In a devastating take-down of Hizzoner, the New York Daily News - no friend of Trump like its tabloid rival the New York Post - points out that the subways are falling apart, public housing is deteriorating, and cars are making the streets very dangerous for cyclists.  And the mayor can't even close the prison at Rikers Island.

The only interesting thing about de Blasio is his interracial family, mainly because you actually see more white male Republicans with non-white wives than Democrats, which is sort of peculiar, especially in the Age of Trump.  Seth Moulton (above), the Massachusetts congressman who just quit his presidential bid, didn't even have something like that going for him.  He's a Democrat from the Bay State (just like Elizabeth Warren), he takes a pragmatic, more moderate approach to governing (just like Joe Biden), he served in the Iraq War as Marine (just as Pete Buttgieg served in the Afghanistan War as a naval reservist), and he's in his early forties (just like Tim Ryan).  And he supports veterans.  Hey, bucko, who doesn't?  But I couldn't tell you what made Moulton different from the other presidential candidates. Maybe it he'd gotten into any of the debates, he would have told us.  In fact, his absence in the debates is the reason I always kept forgetting that he was a presidential candidate!

Yawn.

Moulton says he'll "campaign my ass off" for the Democratic presidential nominee, which means he's prone to throwing out mild expletives (just like Beto O'Rourke).

Okay, that's two more Democratic candidates out of the way. Who's next?