Evan Barker is a young woman who used to be an activist and fundraiser for the Democrat Party, but she left the left after the 2024 election.
Because she had raised a lot of money for the party over the years, she had a chance to rub elbows with some of the most powerful people on the left.
A few years ago, she was at an event at the home of liberal billionaire Tom Steyer where he was announcing that he was pumping tens of millions into the midterm efforts of the Democrats and his wife explained their plan to the assembled crowd.
Barker was stunned to learn that there was absolutely no plan to even try to win back the voters that the Democrats had lost to Trump, mainly working class voters.
This was the moment when she began to realize that she was done with the left.
The New York Post recently published an excerpt to her new book on the topic:
On a cold evening in late March of 2022, I realized the weight of what progressives had become was unbearable. This was my last straw.
“We won’t be getting those voters; they’re not coming back — the ones who left and switched to Donald Trump — the future is young people of color!” Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez roared into the microphone.
That’s a great way to get Donald Trump re-elected, I thought to myself, feeling annoyed as I looked around at a primarily white and extremely rich crowd, who were clapping at her every word like drunken seals.
I was standing in front of Tom Steyer’s mansion in one of the most elite and exclusive neighborhoods of San Francisco. Tom is a billionaire and Democratic mega-donor. He also ran for president in 2020.
I was seven months pregnant, nearing the end of my pregnancy.
Cristina, whom I had worked for on her US Senate race in Texas, was now the executive director of Tom Steyer’s organization NextGen America, the most important liberal youth organization in the country. NextGen was the Left’s rival to Turning Point USA. They hoped to turn out millions of young people to vote, and they had deep pockets to make that happen.
The view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Tom’s front yard was breathtaking. Waiters holding silver trays of delicious hors d’oeuvres moved delicately around the small gathering, whose champagne and wine glasses clinked together.
She goes on to describe how the Democrats lost working class voters in her family to Trump and how Democrats seem to think they can make up the difference with a new coalition built on young people of color. They think this is the key to flipping Texas blue.
Evan recently appeared on a podcast and spoke about the consequences of living in a blue city during the ‘Defund the Police’ craziness.
One of the moments that turned @evanwch away from the far-left was moving to San Francisco and seeing the results of the Defund the Police movement pic.twitter.com/TKWzGiDrTI
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) July 29, 2026
As the old saying goes, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
Good for Evan for coming to her senses.
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