Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative historian and scholar, has produced a new video where he describes what Trump is doing in his second term as a counterrevolution. He suggests that one of the reasons the left is so furious is because this counterrevolution is succeeding.
Hanson points out that Trump is targeting the systems that the left uses to gain power and that unlike his first term, Trump is surrounded by a team that is helping to realize his vision rather than sabotage it.
He also suggests that in the coming months, the reaction of the left will become even more unhinged than they are now, if you can even imagine that.
Partial transcript via the Daily Signal:
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re watching the greatest counterrevolution in some 90 years. We have not seen any president try to radically change the political calculus and the nature of government since Franklin D. Roosevelt did it, from the Left, during the New Deal of the mid-1930s.
And what do I mean by that? President Donald Trump closed the border. Nobody thought he could. He closed it. He has now deported over 100,000 criminal illegal aliens and 1 million have self-deported, of all statuses, who were here illegally.
He’s basically declared war on DEI. And he’s winning that argument. He has barred biological males from competing in women’s sports. He has full public support for doing that and he’s making enormous inroads.
The universities are rushing and competing with each other to cut a deal with Donald Trump, and to agree to not gouge the federal government on federal grants through their surcharges of way over 40% or 50%; to follow civil rights legislation, the Supreme Court, and not discriminate by race or gender, as they do in admissions, hiring, promotion, tenure; and to be disinterested and be fair and follow, as I said, free speech canons in the Bill of Rights on campus.
What am I getting at? Donald Trump is winning on all of these social and cultural issues.
Watch the whole thing below:
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Anger Is Proof Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Working
We are in the midst of the most significant political counterrevolution in nearly a century, rivaling the sweeping changes of FDR’s New Deal.
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— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) August 13, 2025
This is very solid analysis from Hanson, as usual, though it is difficult to imagine how the left will escalate their ‘resistance’ in the coming months.
Read the full article here