Steve Hilton: California's Collapse, Newsom's Failures & $425 Billion Fraud Scandals | PBD #803

California isn’t failing due to lack of resources or ambition—it’s being systematically dismantled by a coalition of unions, litigation, and climate extremism that has turned the state into a $425 billion fraud machine. Steve Hilton, a British-born conservative strategist and former Fox News host, reveals how a 16-year Democratic supermajority enabled government unions to hijack education, housing, and infrastructure, driving up costs while delivering catastrophic outcomes: 47% of K-12 students can’t read or do basic math, the average home price is $906,000, and the high-speed rail project has ballooned from $30 billion to $231 billion with zero track laid. The real engine of collapse? CEQA lawsuits—70% filed by unions to extort project labor agreements—blocking 80% of housing developments and crippling economic mobility. Hilton exposes Governor Newsom’s performative 'track-laying' announcement as a gaslighting stunt, while revealing a secret strategy to manipulate the 2026 race by splitting the Republican vote through Chad Bianco. Yet amid the wreckage, Hilton’s grassroots campaign, Cal Doge, has grown from zero to 65,000 donors without billionaire backing, proving that belief, door-knocking, and a startup-style political model can ignite change. He argues that California’s future isn’t doomed—it’s waiting to be reclaimed by a return to fiscal sanity, innovation, and the practical, pro-worker values that once made it the world’s most dynamic economy.