Looking at the dysfunctional group of Democrat presidential candidates, Mike Bloomberg is planning, through strategically placed ads and a well-funded ground-game, to be the last man standing. His problem, though, is that he’s a bully, lacks charm and, as a recently unearthed video reveals, dislikes and disrespects the American people.

American politicians used to pretend they liked the citizens whose votes they sought. Nowadays, though, Democrat politicians limit themselves to attacking their opponents; they also attack the American voters. The most famous example is Hillary’s "deplorables" statement:

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

Barack Obama castigated Americans as bitter-clingers and hostile xenophobes:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. *** And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

John “Reporting for Duty” Kerry didn’t think much of the military:

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

Indeed, he didn’t think much of Americans generally:

We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.

Two of those American-hating candidates lost badly. Barack Obama rose above his gaffe because he had charm and the media ensured that his skin color insulated him from ordinary criticism.

The charmless Mini Mike Bloomberg can now join the club of Democrat politicians who hate Americans. In 2016, while speaking at Oxford University, the multi-billionaire who is trying to buy the American election told the assembled audience that ordinary Americans are not intelligent, making it impossible to teach them that so-called transgender people have rights greater than young girls trapped in restrooms with them:

If you think about it, we, the intelligentsia, the people who could make it into this room, we believe in a lot of things in terms of equality and protecting individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people. They're not opposed to you having some rights but there's a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world, I think it's fair to say, that the rights of society comes first. And so, I don't know how many of you familiar with the bathroom issue in the United States -- anybody know what I'm talking about? If you want to know is somebody a good salesman, give them the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter. If you can sell that you can sell anything. I mean they just look at you and they say. “What on earth are you talking about?” And you say, “Well, this person identifies his or her gender as different than what's on their birth certificate.” And they say, “What do you mean? You’re either born this or you’re born that.” And, you know, I will say, in our prison system in New York City, we have to have the policy when you walk in, you know, “drop your trousers, you go this way you go that way.” That's it because you can't sit there and you can't mix things in a jail. That’s a practical case of where you have to make a decision but it's so many things that we are nuanced and the issue the social issues that we're very proud of achieving aren't believing, aren't believed by the vast bulk of the people.

You heard it from the horse’s mouth: You’re not intelligent, you don’t support equality, and you have no nuance. But Bloomberg still thinks that you should vote for him so he can tell you how to live your narrow, little, hate-filled life the right way . . . his way.