All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Steve Hilton argues that 16 years of single-party Democratic control in California have led to the state having the highest poverty rate, highest unemployment, and highest cost of living. He attributes these issues to policies driven by narrow interest groups and corrupt systems in Sacramento.
“We've had 16 years of one party in control. Today in California, we have the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment rate, the highest cost of living by far. Look at how you have housing costs, the highest in the country. That's why people are leaving.”
“It's exactly right. Um, this is what happens with one party rule, actually. And you see that in history, whether it's on the from the right or the left, it always ends up with a kind of insular, self-regarding elite that just forgets about their responsibility to everyone else and just gets obsessed with their own ideology, their internal motivations, whoever their interest groups are that they represent, and by the way, in Sacramento, we have one of the most corrupt systems anywhere in the country, in terms of the power of the donors to the politicians who make the decisions, the unions, the trial lawyers, that's why we have the worst litigation risk anywhere in the country.”