"The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting antisemitic venom is passing. So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity."
"The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.
The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.
Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51% of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.
"Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.
"Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad.
"The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them.
"The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens that they were not crazy. Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic, and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status.
"The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control.
"President Joe Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was.
"Criminals with weapons are as deleterious to society as law-abiding citizens deprived of them." . . .
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won." You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
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