Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All

An explosive investigation into Gavin Newsom’s California and how his brand of far-left governance threatens to remake the rest of America ― as he plots a 2028 presidential run.

Residents are fleeing the Golden State in droves. Catastrophic wildfires―fueled by years of corruption and collusion between elected officials and colossal utility companies―devastate communities. The state's homelessness crisis is the worst in the country. Drug-related deaths are skyrocketing. And violent crime and smash-and-grab retail theft is now commonplace. For too many across the state, pursuing the Californian Dream is now a fool’s errand. But what people don't know is what’s driving these failures, why California’s leaders have allowed them to spiral and how this contagion could spread to every other city and town in the United States if it isn’t exposed for what it is: failed far-left social experiments.
 
From the investigative research team behind Peter Schweizer’s runaway bestsellers comes Fool’s Gold, a hard-hitting work of journalism that tells the untold story of the dark side of the Democratic Party’s Californian elites and the toll they’ve taken on the entire country. One of Schweizer’s top investigators, Jedd McFatter, has teamed up with award-winning investigative journalist Susan Crabtree to expose the most powerful names in politics: Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiff, among others. 
 
This shocking book warns that Gavin Newsom is actually right when he often declares, “As goes California, so goes the nation.” As Fool's Gold explains, America’s future is inextricably tied to California both because of its sheer size―and the enormous influence of its political figures who remain dead set on controlling the White House for decades to come.
 

Susan Crabtree is senior White House and national political correspondent for RealClearPolitics.
 
Jedd McFatter is the director of research at Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute.