California’s ultra-wealthy elite are eating their own, and Ron Conway—the tech billionaire behind the pro-open-borders FWD.us lobby and a die-hard Democrat donor—is taking the hardest hits in the latest round of infighting over a proposed wealth tax. According to a fresh report, Conway, who’s poured millions into pushing unrestricted migration and leftist causes, is now the prime target as fellow Golden State billionaires like Michael Moritz and Reed Hastings rally against the measure that would sock them with annual levies on assets over $50 million. It’s a delicious irony: the man who bankrolled efforts to flood the state with low-wage workers and sanctuary policies is now persona non grata among his peers, who see the tax as a direct threat to their fortunes amid California’s already punishing 13.3% top income tax rate.
This billionaire bloodbath isn’t just Silicon Valley soap opera—it’s a masterclass in the perils of funding your own fiscal noose. Conway’s FWD.us has long championed mass immigration under the guise of innovation, but California’s exploding homeless crisis, skyrocketing crime, and $68 billion budget deficit (fueled in part by unchecked migrant costs) have even his allies balking at more wealth extraction. The tax push, backed by Governor Newsom’s machine, reeks of the same desperate revenue grabs that birthed the state’s draconian gun control regime: when governments run out of other people’s money, they turn on their golden geese.
For the 2A community, this is a stark warning shot. California’s billionaire class, once reliable funders of anti-gun extremism like Prop 63’s ammo background checks and assault weapon bans, is fracturing under the weight of their own progressive Frankenstein. If even tax-loving titans like Conway are getting abandoned, imagine the fallout when these same elites realize endless wealth taxes could bankrupt the NGOs and PACs pushing confiscation schemes. Watch closely: as California’s economy hemorrhages (hello, tech exodus to gun-friendly Texas and Florida), the push for more common-sense restrictions might stall—or backfire spectacularly—when the money dries up. 2A patriots, take notes: divide and conquer works both ways.
