There is the Mayor Michael Bloomberg who is hailed for his vision, for being farsighted in the best sense.
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Then there is the Mayor Bloomberg with the billionaire's view of New York and its problems who accused Bill de Blasio of practicing "class warfare" and racial politics in his campaign for mayor, just because Mr. de Blasio has featured ads with his wife, who is black, and their son, Dante, owner of the city's most celebrated Afro.
"He's making an appeal using his family to gain support," Mr. Bloomberg said, in an interview in this week's New York magazine. "I think it's pretty obvious to anyone watching what he's been doing." (The mayor actually called it "racist," but his office later told us by e-mail that he hadn't meant to use that word.)
Too bad Mr. Bloomberg can't see racism where it persists: in the city's abusive stop-and-frisk police tactics. Or hear the tone-deafness in his withering criticism of Mr. de Blasio's populist campaign, which laments the growing divide between New York's "two cities," rich and poor.
"The way to help those who are less fortunate is, No. 1, to attract more very fortunate people," Mr. Bloomberg said. "They are the ones that pay the bills."
If only it were as simple as making the city as attractive as possible for people with money, so wealth rolls down the mountaintop. "Wouldn't it be great," Mr. Bloomberg mused, "if we could get all the Russian billionaires to move here?" The benefits of oligarchy are harder to see when your eyes are inches from a wall as a cop pats you down for the gun you don't have. Or when you can't pay bills because your job pays minimum wage and all the "very fortunate people" are driving up the rents on your block.
"When I walk the streets," Mr. Bloomberg said, "people whose support I would never expect in a million years — the truck driver — yell out the window, 'go for four terms!' " There's a strangeness to that self-satisfied anecdote. Why would a mayor be so disconnected from working people that he would never expect — not in a million years — a truck driver's support? Mr. Bloomberg's departure may be sad news for Russian billionaires, but it's the truck drivers we care about, and who are voting for his successor.
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