Want Accountability? Start with California. Read Fool’s Gold

By Yossi Schmidt, Founder of The Digital Free Press | April 21, 2025

RATING: 9.3/10

Susan Crabtree’s Fool’s Gold is journalism with teeth, the kind I live for—ripping into the powerful with no apologies. This book doesn’t bother with “policy nuance” or soft-pedaling. It pins names, crimes, and evidence to California’s corpse and proves the collapse wasn’t a fumble—it was sabotage. And it’s going national.

Gavin Newsom’s not just a gel-haired showboat—he’s the mouthpiece for a radical elite that shields crooks, bleeds workers dry, and brands it progress. Kamala Harris? Engineered disaster. Nancy Pelosi? Career con. Adam Schiff? Political charlatan. Fool’s Gold shows how these grifters, their donor cronies, media lapdogs, and activist stooges turned California into a rigged casino where the house always wins.

This isn’t “bad governance.” It’s a ruling class that smashed a world-class state on purpose and now wants to peddle the playbook everywhere.

And Crabtree doesn’t speculate—she nails it shut.

She and Jedd McFatter expose how California’s leaders trashed safety, greenlit lawlessness, handed streets to cartels and junkies, and called it kindness. 700,000 homeless, 70,000 overdose deaths a year, 50% crime surges, $68 billion deficit—it’s all here, backed by court docs, campaign cash trails, and public records. I checked the homeless stats against HUD’s 2023 report; they’re airtight. No nameless sources, no padding—just pure, documented truth.

It’s not a fun read. It’ll make you furious. Good.

If you’ve followed real news, some scandals might sound familiar. But Crabtree’s brilliance is stitching it into one savage tale of elite treason. She proves California’s not just a failure—it’s a warning for every state. These policies—defund the police, legalize drugs, embrace chaos—are creeping, and Harris’s 2024 campaign is the proof.

No one’s coming to save us. If you want accountability, Fool’s Gold is your hit list: who’s guilty, what they did, and why they’ll claw to keep you quiet. As someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes journalism that holds the powerful accountable, I’m all in on this book—it’s why I’ve been screaming about it on X (@YossiShow).

Final Score: 9.3/10. A near-perfect gut-punch, blowing most political books out of the water. Could it skewer Republican crooks too? Yep. Could it cut some familiar tales? Sure. But it’s a masterclass in exposing the elite, and I’m here for it. Start with California, demand accountability, read this now.

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