Impeach Tom Steyer
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The ultra-liberal billionaire is the enemy of every cause he promotes.
It took no special cunning on the part of a restless California hedge fund billionaire, a k a Mr. Steyer, to notice that climate change is now a sacred question among progressives, an occasion for us-vs.-them tribalism, brooking no debate.
Anybody, though, might have noticed that the Gore approach produced no results and ultimately discredited the cause. Mr. Gore himself is less heard these days, having turned his focus to money-making. Mr. Steyer picked up the climate as his own passport to celebrity—yet failed to do the obvious thing and rethink a strategy that so manifestly has failed.
Who knows what goes on in the head of somebody like Mr. Steyer? He pays Democratic operatives to tell him what a great guy he is, and they take his money and spend it on Democratic politics as usual. Mr. Steyer has invested at least $200 million in recent years promoting Democrats and attacking Republicans, with the result that Democrats are wiped out in large parts of the country and Donald Trump is president.
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