America’s most successful entrepreneurs are beginning to challenge progressive dominance head-on.

Recall the raucous TV audience applause for comments by Whoopi, Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, et al. and you will have a picture of those types who put Mamdani, Newsom, and Katie Wilson into office. TD

The American Spectator   

"Words have power, but billionaires have real resources that can result in historic change."

"Kudos to Ken Griffin and Sergey Brin, the two billionaires going public against leftist outrages in New York City and California. They understand that standing ground and fighting back against adversaries has great potential while accommodation hasn’t ceased the recriminations against their success.

"Griffin blasted Mayor Zohran Mamdani for showboating in front of the entrepreneur’s Manhattan residence to promote his bizarre pied-à-terre tax. Brin boldly stepped forward with a $57 million contribution for countermeasures to California’s proposed five percent wealth tax while pointedly invoking his family’s 1979 flee from socialism and “the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union.” Several other California billionaires and business leaders have joined Brin to defeat what the Wall Street Journal has called “the biggest act of economic self-sabotage in U.S. history.”

"But if Brin and his financial peers want to make their efforts last for years ahead, they should apply their vast resources to shape common sense governmental, tax, and regulatory policies and make a run at California’s governorship. Now that they’re in for the half, they should go in for the whole.

"There is a brief window of opportunity before June 2’s gubernatorial primary where they can slow or potentially reverse the disaster wrought by Gavin Newsom and an increasingly democratic socialist legislature. With just a fraction of their fortunes, it might be possible to affect the outcome of the governor’s race and prevent the accession of another vassal into California’s left-wing kingdom.

"Less than four weeks remain before California’s “jungle primary” decides where the top two candidates, regardless of party, advance to November. Today, there appear to be four realistic “top two” survivors: Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton and Democrats Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra. Nevertheless, polling has been extremely erratic, and six Democrats are splitting their party’s vote. The two Republicans are within striking distance of making it to the top two if the Democrats continue their circular firing squad.

"On the other hand, national Democrats, union bosses, and left-wing special interests are likely on the cusp of spending tens of millions to assure that the top two survivors in the jungle primary are either both Democrats or one Democrat and one Republican. The Republicans have not won the governorship in the last 20 years, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was not a conservative favorite. So even if the Democrat nominee carries Newsom’s dead weight, the numbers will favor dynastic transition for zero change in Sacramento if the final match-up involves a Democrat versus a Republican." . . .More...

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Toon added by TD

“When the person running the city doesn’t seem to understand that all jobs and tax revenue come from private employers, and driving employers away permanently hollows out her capacity to pay for her social programs, it’s clear that we’re in for a rough decade, if not a permanent decline.”