How do people with poop for brains become billionaires?
Liberty.
Tom Steyer definitely does not have “poop for brains.” You don’t get to be a billionaire with that as the content of your cranial cavity. However, the content of his character may very well consist thereof. He is simply a “war” profiteer in a “war” that certainly is more virtual than real, and therefore needs to be propped up vigorously by propaganda in order to allow the profiteering to continue.
Humanity has had to endure the Tom Steyers of this world for many centuries.