What I realized I liked most about Steyer is that he seems less angry than simply (and appropriately) scared.
Tom Steyer. It’s not the kind of thing I care to admit; I don’t tend to “like” presidential candidates or billionaires, no matter how plaid their ties. Yet there it was: I liked Steyer enough to feel for him when he found himself ping-ponging between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren duringIt built up over time, the liking. It has translated to no desire at all for him to be president. But on a stage brimming with ambition, much of it effective, he seemed well-meaning and harmless.
Poorly-regulated climate panic isn’t, by the way, Steyer’s reputation. Like many a billionaire, the man has been lovingly profiled in ways that tiresomely equate business acumen with aggression and dominance. Aarticle form 2014 describes him as having “the disposition of an Irish pugilist, an aggressive financier animated by a sporting esprit de combat.” That may be so.
Anger is Steyer’s worst look. He’s better when he campaigns on learning from his mistakes.
Many of us are scared. Maybe I just appreciate that Steyer is too because billionaires, for the most part, don’t have to be. They’ll be fine, no matter what happens. Their money separates and insulates them from ordinary human fears and imminent human cataclysms. Bloomberg sure isn’t scared; he seems surprised in a clinical sort of way that people disagree with him, certainly, but even his surprise carries a whiff of contempt, as if the dissenters were unruly pets instead of people.
These are fine distinctions, I realize. Billionaires do not become billionaires by being harmless and it takes extraordinary hubris to declare yourself a serious contender to lead the country. But when you have not one but, it’s incumbent upon us to compare them. That Steyer won’t last makes him easier to like even while I’m still wondering what exactly he’s doing still running for president.
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