BOB MCMANUS: Why Bloomberg might try his luck in a White House run. “In a very real sense Bloomberg is Trump’s lace-curtain cousin — more dignified, with a credible resume and vastly more wealthy, to be sure, but he’s also an ego-driven usurper with more money than he could ever spend and no accountability to a grassroots political infrastructure. There’s seductive freedom in all that, even as the lack of such an anchor could be downright dangerous in the unlikely event that Bloomberg were to catch some real traction.”