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Democrats' new California gubernatorial frontrunner, Tom Steyer, puts out a crazed, nutty platform
American Thinker ^ | 16 Apr, 2026 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/16/2026 5:30:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Now that Eric Swalwell has crashed and burned as the Democrats' front-runner for governor of California, greenie billionaire and perennial presidential candidate Tom Steyer has been put forward as the new Favored One, according to the party's Mighty Integral.

Steyer is now the frontrunner to become the next Governor of California...

Looks like the idea is that the bulk of Swalwell's voters go to Steyer, it lifts him past Bianco in the primary, and Steyer beats Hilton in the General.

This is why the Dems took out Swalwell. Every… https://t.co/iW2tNPdzP0 — Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) April 13, 2026

He's been eager enough for it, running millions of dollars of television ads, often featuring young people, who call Steyer 'my man' and other cozy terms. Steyer himself mouths platitudes about 'affordability' and other Democrat shibboleths since the election of Zohran Mamdani, who used the term, and then he sometimes lays out his promise to make electricity prices go 25 percent lower, and build a million houses, which should make ... someone ... rich. But nothing else really comes out of him, other than his craving for power.

Until now. He released his party platform, and it's a doozy:

He calls for a million new units of government housing to be built, in the name of making housing 'affordable' for that lucky million, ending Proposition 13 which protects little-guy homeowners as the prices of their homes go up, lowering electrical bills by breaking up monopolies as he puts it, providing state-education from age three through two years of community college, interfering with ICE agents doing their jobs, which he can't legally do, saddle businesses with oodles of new green regulations guaranteed to make prices go up, not down, and institute Canada-style single-payer health care, bound to create shortages and long waiting times

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: california; extremiststate; governor; leftism; steyer; violentdemocrats

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1 posted on 04/16/2026 5:30:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The west coast Mamdani.


2 posted on 04/16/2026 5:30:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump has really stirred up politics. The days of status-quo Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are over.


3 posted on 04/16/2026 5:36:40 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: MtnClimber

“But it’s awful stuff, and Heaven help California if this freak gets elected.”

Monice, tell us how you really feel.


4 posted on 04/16/2026 5:37:19 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

As my pastor is fond of saying, “What’s down in the well comes up in the bucket.”


5 posted on 04/16/2026 5:41:51 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: MtnClimber

Another socialist democrat architect the back side of every pland is a cash cow for a vote to keep the party in power.


6 posted on 04/16/2026 5:43:41 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: MtnClimber

Learn something new everyday.

Democrat shibboleths

There is a legend that before the Battle of the Golden Spurs in May 1302, the Flemish slaughtered every Frenchman they could find in the city of Bruges, an act known as the Matins of Bruges.[30] They identified Frenchmen based on their inability to pronounce the Flemish phrase schild en vriend, “shield and friend”, or possibly gilden vriend, “friend of the Guilds”. However, many Medieval Flemish dialects did not contain the cluster sch- either (even today’s Kortrijk dialect has sk-), and Medieval French rolled the r just as Flemish did.[b]

Following Mayor Albert’s Rebellion in 1312 Kraków, Poles used the Polish language shibboleth Soczewica, koło, miele, młyn (”Lentil, wheel, grinds (verb), mill”) to distinguish the German-speaking burghers. Those who could not properly pronounce this phrase were executed.[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth


7 posted on 04/16/2026 5:46:05 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MtnClimber

Crazed and nutty?! Heck, that’s a winner in CA, as long as it has tones of America hate rolled in.


8 posted on 04/16/2026 5:48:30 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: MtnClimber

Read his platform, look at who’s voting, and you have the new governor of CA. Clearly he has no grasp of economics or natural monopolies in general. I could go on, but what’s the point. CA went off the rails decades ago.


9 posted on 04/16/2026 5:55:56 AM PDT by econjack
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To: MtnClimber

Another whacked-out communist freak that does not belong anywhere the “levers of power” of anything, even electric lawnmowers.


10 posted on 04/16/2026 6:05:16 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: MtnClimber

“My man” by Steyer is the new “I’m in” for Swalwell. And one million apartments at 100K is 100 billion dollars.


11 posted on 04/16/2026 6:09:21 AM PDT by healy61
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To: MtnClimber

Ending the limitation on property taxes will defeat his candidacy for sure.
But yes, his overall “platform” sounds like a random collection of the crayola graffiti off the walls at the lunatic asylum. It’s surprising he can put his pants on with the zipper in front.


12 posted on 04/16/2026 6:14:41 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t put him down as arrogant.


13 posted on 04/16/2026 6:15:24 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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14 posted on 04/16/2026 6:35:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: MtnClimber

The boy is a real Cauliphonya freaky weirdo.


15 posted on 04/16/2026 6:35:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Asshat the Piker needs to get his domestic terrorist ass out of my country. )
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To: MtnClimber

New Jersey gets their new jackbooted, knuckledragging primate Congressape today. Way to go New Joysey. Enjoy all the new tax hikes! ROTFL!


16 posted on 04/16/2026 6:39:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Asshat the Piker needs to get his domestic terrorist ass out of my country. )
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like a shoe in.


17 posted on 04/16/2026 6:48:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber

NEWSOM & BASS LOWERED ELECTRIC BILLS:

THEY BURNED DOWN LOTS OF HOUSES.


18 posted on 04/16/2026 6:53:48 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: econjack

“Clearly he has no grasp of economics or natural monopolies in general.”

I have bad news for you.

Steyer is highly intelligent and knows exactly what he is doing and why.

He is evil and wants to complete the destruction of California.

A few billionaires will rule the state like feudal lords.


19 posted on 04/16/2026 6:54:20 AM PDT by cgbg (The definition of outstanding propaganda is when almost everybody believes the same lies.)
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To: econjack

Yes, but now we have seen that Democrats’ platforms mean nothing. Virginia’s Governor Spanberger was a supposed moderate. Guessing that Steyer could go the same way…further left.


20 posted on 04/16/2026 6:59:37 AM PDT by masadaman
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