Just hours after releasing a campaign video, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio was met by protestors as he arrived for his first TV interview as a presidential candidate. Image: GettyPolitics these days is a form of entertainment, and for the comedy portion of the Democratic presidential nomination fight we now have New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. He has no chance of winning, but we’ll break our longtime policy and consider an endorsement if he resigns as mayor while he’s running. Our friends at the New York Post greeted his candidacy with a front page of people laughing at the news. But the one benefit is that he is a walking expression of today’s progressivism: Assertions of great moral virtue in...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 16, 2019 23:15 UTC