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Opinion | Mike Bloomberg and Trump's shared love of executive power makes them strongman soulmates. By anthonyLfisher

Mike Bloomberg and President Trump have a lot in common, including a penchant for pushing executive power to its limits.

From the expansion of stop-and-first to his soda tax to the elimination of term limits, Bloomberg used his power as mayor to unilaterally push through all kinds of policies. Also like Trump, Bloomberg has downplayed the actions of authoritarian leaders such as Chinese President Xi Jinping.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesMike Bloomberg's opponents at this week's Democratic debate ripped into him as a Trump-adjacent interloper to their party. They hit him for his ostentatious display of wealth, his alleged misogyny, and his long tenure overseeing abusive policing tactics.

But there's another analogue that Bloomberg's five rivals on the Las Vegas stage missed: The three-term former New York City mayor's shared instinct with the 45th president when it comes to the use of sweeping executive authority. The most memorable line of Trump's acceptance speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention was "I alone can fix it." And he's followed that up by issuingBloomberg would be unlikely to vocalize his intentions as crudely as Trump, but he shares a similar messiah complex.

 

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anthonyLfisher How ridiculous and destructive. Mike is literally Trump’s opposite.

anthonyLfisher One is a genuine successful businessman while the other played a pretend successful businessman on TV.

anthonyLfisher bloomberg loves china. trump loves america.

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