Near the front of the closely separated demolition derby field that is California’s gubernatorial jungle primary — where only the top two candidates advance — is Democrat Tom Steyer, a billionaire that billionaire-haters are supposed to love.
Steyer doesn’t have any real experience in governance or in enacting any of the policies he believes in —environmentalist austerity, tax hikes that might even give Michael Dukakis pause, and racial grievance-pandering of the highest order — but boy, will he ever tell you how much he believes in them and how he’s going to get it done.
He has to campaign hard on those to prove that diligence trumps experience, especiallysince a Republicanis likely to end up in one of the top two spots in the jungle primary — meaning if he’s going to translate his chances into a ticket to the governor’s mansion in Sacramento, he’s got to work it.
In that vein, he decided to campaign to black voters, partiallyon reparationsand other issues, Saturday. In a video that’s now going viral, we see how that ended: He got driven out of a historically African-American neighborhood due to, in part, his “devil blue eyes.”
According to aSubstackaccount of the affair from former Washington Post campaign correspondent Maeve Reston, Steyer had pulled out all the stops, including enlisting R&B singer Howard Hewitt to get the crowd to clap in rhythm. (Not quiteJeb!’s “please clap,”but close enough to it.)
The neighborhood, Reston said, is “the cultural hub of Los Angeles’s Black community,” meaning that Steyer poured it on and thick.
The black community, for instance, was “the moral leader of the United States” for the entirety of his life, according to Steyer. He added there was a “gigantic debt owed to this community” due to “structural racism in our society for 500 years.”
In case you fail to realize where this is going, I point you toSteyer’s abortive 2020 presidential campaign(less successful than his run at the governorship, although surprisingly successful nonetheless, given how obvious a moneyed nonentity Steyer is), given how he feels regarding reparations:
I didn’t get to respond to the#DemDebatequestion on reparations last night. I support reparations and challenge other candidates to do the same. 400 years of legalized discrimination and unfairness. Deep, long-term injustice, and no apology. It’s time.
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer)December 20, 2019
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