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Califailure

Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst-Run State

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Steve Hilton tackles the (literally) burning question: What will it take to save California?

California is a "model for the nation," Governor Gavin Newsom keeps telling us. "We're following a formula for success." In Califailure, Hilton compellingly captures exactly where this far-left experiment has gone fundamentally—catastrophically—wrong.

Great cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland collapsed into squalor as crime and homelessness were allowed to explode. The state that used to pride itself as the home of innovation and opportunity became the state with the worst rate of poverty, highest unemployment, and most hostile business climate in America—as well as the highest taxes.

How did this happen, and what is needed to turn things around? Hilton identifies the nine key "pathologies"—from Elitism to Cronyism to Narcissism—that define the ideology at the heart of California's decline. And he lays out a comprehensive program of policy reform ("CaliFuture") that will restore the Golden State to its rightful place as the very best of America.

Californians are starting to wake up from the long and fitful nightmare. In 2024 far-left politicians were removed from leadership positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Proposition 36, which in the words of its proponents "makes crime illegal again," passed overwhelmingly with majorities in every county.

Califailure is what happens when Democrats get everything they want. Increasingly, it's not what Californians want. This book explains why America must reject it, too.

©2025 Steve Hilton (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers
Conservatism & Liberalism Ideologies & Doctrines Politics & Government City California San Francisco

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Hilton’s optimism about CA.

The challenges are daunting and the people are not enraged enough to engage so it may take some time

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A masterpiece of the dull

Behold, a tome so pedestrian it evokes the tiresome squawking of Chicken Little, prognosticating doom with all the grace of a leaden-footed prophet. This author, perchance mildly diverting amidst the flickering glow of Fox News, has birthed a work that collapses under the weight of its own banality. One might wish to laud its intent, yet I find myself unable to join the imagined throngs of dissenters who, in some alternate realm, might champion this drivel—for herein lies my gravest grievance: it is a fiction masquerading as revelation, a sham clad in the garb of insight.

What we are proffered is no grand treatise, but a tiresome litany of grievances, as though the author, in a moment of puerile epiphany, stumbled upon the suffix "ism" and deemed it a golden key to profundity. Alas, it unlocks naught but a Pandora’s box of opinions, thinly veiled as fact, strung together with all the coherence of a madman’s ravings. Originality lies dead at its feet, entertainment flees in terror, and the narrator’s voice—oh, that voice!—grates like toast abandoned to the cruel fates of staleness, brittle and devoid of savor.

One might presume this scribe a genial soul, yet this book smacks of a cynical ploy, a sop tossed to his pre-existing devotees—for who, pray tell, could be swayed to allegiance by such juvenile carping, fit for the schoolyard scribblings of a sixth-former? Forgive me, dear Steve, but your opus is a lamentable failure, a quagmire of "isms" so suffocating I scarce trudged beyond its opening pages ere I found myself ensnared in a labyrinth of ennui. Behold, a few "isms" of mine own crafting to match your dismal symphony:
- Boringism: a malady of the mundane, afflicting every line.
- Amateurism: the clumsy hand of the novice, writ large.
- Repetitism: a carousel of redundancy, spinning into oblivion.

Might we not ascend to an "ism" of substance—perseverism, perhaps, to endure this tripe? Yet even that lofty virtue falters before such a void. Adieu, and may your next endeavor rise above this lamentable abyss. Cheers, indeed.

Oh BTW I will be switching the channel when you come on "news" but I might keep watching if it were a reality series on the rich, the powerful and the dull, whoops, already done as this is the central strategy of all reality TV.


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