The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Anger is Proof Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Working

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. We're watching the greatest counter-revolution in some 90 years. We have not seen any president try to radically change the political calculus and the nature of government since FDR did it during the New Deal. Donald Trump is winning on all of these social and cultural issues. People are angry about this counter-revolution for two reasons. It's succeeding and it's succeeding beyond anybody's wild expectation because it's working. There's another reason why they're angry.

Starting point is 00:00:59 We're going to see in the next year a frenzy, a frantic, almost out of mind reaction from the left. Race yourself, we're looking at the resistance coming up to the counter-revolution, and it's going to be fierce and unhinged. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. We're watching the greatest counter-revolution in some 90 years. We have not seen any president try to... to radically change the political calculus and the nature of government since FDR did it from the left during the New Deal of the mid-1930s. And what do I mean by that? Donald Trump closed the border.

Starting point is 00:01:49 Nobody thought he could. He closed it. He has now deported over 100,000 criminal illegal aliens and one 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 percent, to follow civil rights legislation in the Supreme Court and not discriminate by race or gender as they do in admissions, hiring, promotion, and tenure, and to be disinterested and be fair and

Starting point is 00:02:50 follow, as I said, free speech canons and the Bill of Rights on campus. What am I getting at? This isn't that Donald Trump is winning on all of these social and cultural issues. Abroad, we see that Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat for the immediate future, that Israel's enemies, whether Hezbollah or Hamas or Houthis, are in disarray or are severely attrided. Iran is no longer a threat to the Gulf states or Israel, at least for the immediate future, and we see some progress with the Ukrainian war. People are angry about this counter-revolution for two reasons. It's succeeding and it's succeeding beyond anybody's wild expectation.

Starting point is 00:03:36 Naysayers, the Wall Street Journal news page, said we would be in a recession now. The tariffs would cause a trade war. We would see the stock market collapse. The opposite has happened. $15 trillion of foreign investment promised and $300 billion in tariff revenue anticipated. We don't know the eventual effects of this new tariffs, but for now, all of our economists who predicted gloom and doom were wrong. All of our cultural critics who said the universities would be destroyed by Donald Trump,

Starting point is 00:04:10 that he would arrest innocent people who just happened to forget to get a visa. He wouldn't go after criminals. They are wrong, too. So people are angry about this counter-revolution because it's working. But there's another reason why they're angry. he's not addressing the symptoms as he did in the first administration. He doesn't have people around him as he did in the first administration. Rex Tillerson.

Starting point is 00:04:41 A Bill Barr, good man, but a bill bar was not on the MAGA agenda. Jim Mattis, people like Anonymous, Omar Roso, all of these people who thought that they knew better than Donald Trump and they would either stop what he was trying to do or reinterpret what he was trying to do. In other words, he has a team that is devoted to his counter-revolution and more importantly to the symptoms of the progressive project. The symptoms of the progressive project are not just the Democrats exercising power in Congress

Starting point is 00:05:15 or holding the White House. It's how they get that power. And they get that power through PBS and NPR, now defunded. Cable news and slanted network news now under assault when they lie and defame and face court ramifications. The universities and indoctrinate people, now facing large fines, tax on their endowments, a renewed way of a new government attention toward student loans, $1.7 trillion program, surcharges, as I said, and segregation on campus in dorms, graduations. The universities are now under scrutiny. We're seeing the Department of Education itself being questioned. And I mentioned before, in addition to education and the media, Donald Trump is attacking the very idea that residency is synonymous with citizenship, that if you came here

Starting point is 00:06:15 illegally, if you reside illegally, then you are eventually going to face a deportation. if you have not been a violent criminal, and even if not, you haven't been served with deportation papers. So what he's trying to do is tell the American people that the left exercises power, even when they do not control government, any branch of government, and they exercise power even though on most of the issues, if not all of them, their constituency is only 40%. The majority of the American people oppose their agenda. And they do this through the bureaucracies, through the media, through the universities, to the popular culture. And these are the very sources that Donald Trump is asking them to reform.

Starting point is 00:07:01 And the government is going to shrink. The government's going to get out of the media business. The government's going to take a hard look at universities who want and obtain federal funds. And we're going to see the counter-revolution, I think, succeed with one caveat. We're going to see in the next year a frenzy, a frantic, almost out of mind reaction from the left because they know that if this counter-revolution succeeds, it'll be very difficult for them to push down an unpopular agenda down the throat of the American people. So brace yourself. We're looking at the resistance coming up

Starting point is 00:07:44 to the counter-revolution, and it's going to be fierce and unhinged. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansan.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Anger is Proof Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Working

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