Andrew Gillum and the Extent of the Progressive Revolution
30th August 2018
A San Francisco financier with a blue-blood Manhattan pedigree (Buckley, Exeter, Yale), Steyer has the tycoon’s habit of smiling broadly after he finishes speaking. As we spoke, Steyer kept returning to a point he makes often in public: that the Democratic Party is undergoing a profound generational change, and that he wanted to use his influence to help spur it along. I asked Steyer which politicians he believed represented this change, and he said, “Andrew Gillum.”
A billionaire backs a socialist. What does he know that you don’t?
The matter of how a poor young person might make it in a society arranged for the wealthy is one of Gillum’s main themes.
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But Gillum had also recognized that the big money in the Democratic Party—Steyer’s money, George Soros’s money—is now on the left, not the center.
Guess he doesn’t spend much time thinking about why wealthy people are backing him. But I suppose sock puppets don’t have much time for thought.