Dems' new California gubernatorial frontrunner, Tom Steyer, puts out a crazed, nutty platform

 by Monica Showalter

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, as well as the already-there high costs.

Here are a couple more key elements:

NEW: CA gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) releases an immigration platform that is radically left of Gov. Newsom. It includes:

- Abolish ICE
- Put ICE agents in jail & “treat them like the mob”.
- Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.”
- Give CA AG power to… https://t.co/XqM8eK7Hhf

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 14, 2026

This, too. Proposition 13 is the third rail of California politics.

Tom Steyer Campaigning on Blowing up Prop 13.

Proposition 13 is one of the very few protections that California taxpayers have.@CaliforniaGlobehttps://t.co/tmon0wXMDO https://t.co/VvRPrmlhek

— California Globe (@CaliforniaGlobe) April 14, 2026

LAUSD teachers got a deal. Good. Now let's fix the reason they had to strike in the first place.

We need to fund our schools, and I'll do that by changing Prop 13 so that corporations pay real estate taxes based on their property's true value, not its value from the 1970s. https://t.co/7le6nwblZm

— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) April 13, 2026

Even Gavin Newsom thinks it's skeevy, and that is saying a lot:

Here’s what Gavin Newsom thinks of the leading Democratic candidates for California Governor.https://t.co/dK5ygYFhdB pic.twitter.com/TAsE1R0qa6

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 15, 2026

When you've lost Gavin Newsom ...

But he has a lot of big-money sponsorship:

🚨 The Green‑Industrial Complex: How Tom Steyer Converted California into a Private Equity Colony ☠️

Tom Steyer is not a candidate for Governor; he is the architect of a new bureaucratic empire that has successfully merged California's regulatory power with the predatory… https://t.co/6JNo9myYhL

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April 14, 2026

His buddies include Reid Hoffman, Laurene Powell Jobs, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and other lefty moneybags with dreams of making California their first globalist colony:

🚨 Beware of Tom Steyer ☠️

We have been doing this investigation for over a decade, and we must unpack our exposé on Tom Steyer carefully—because very few people in American politics represent the seamless blending of Wall Street machinery, “green capitalism,” and establishment… pic.twitter.com/HVH3q7IWSQ

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) February 24, 2026

This is billionaires plotting behind the scenes for a hostile takeover, which is clearly part of Democrat machine politics.

Steyer may have been the one who got the Democrats to put their machine in motion to knock out Swalwell (did he pay them off?), but it's interesting that he's not following the Democrat establishment playbook these days, which is to run as Abigail Spanberger did, making moderate statements during the campaign and then governing as a radical.

Steyer seems to be following the Mamdani playbook, which is to be as open and extremist as possible. Perhaps the Democrat machine is that radical, or considers California voters that radical, that Steyer can lay out a whole round of crazy. 

But it's awful stuff, and Heaven help California if this freak gets elected. He's currently the Democrat favorite who is deemed most likely to unite the fragmented Democrat vote, besting true frontrunner Steve Hilton of the Republicans.

But that hasn't happened yet. It's up to Hilton and other Republicans to drive all the ugly details about Steyer's platform into the open, where voters anxious for change can rightly reject these frequently rejected policies. California deserves a lot better than the sorry candidate on offer from the Democrats.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/democrats_new_california_gubernatorial_frontrunner_tom_steyer_puts_out_a_crazed_nutty_platform.html