A new book review for the Washington Examiner calls FOOL’S GOLD: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All, “a gripping expose of California’s entrenched political machine.”
In their new book, investigative journalists Susan Crabtree and GAI research director Jedd McFatter argue that “California, and especially San Francisco, has become the Democratic Party’s center of gravity, aggressively exporting its brand of progressive politics to the rest of the country.”
“Fool’s Gold is a sharp, meticulously researched, and timely analysis of California’s decline and the political forces sustaining its one-party rule. California, once the state of Reagan and Nixon, began swinging left in the 1980’s. The Democratic takeover was accelerated by “military base closings after the end of the Cold War, the flight of tech, aviation, and other businesses to states with lower taxes; amnesty and sanctuary policies that opened the floodgates to illegal immigration; and San Francisco’s liberal contagion spreading south,” the reviewer writes.