Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Trump Is Staging a Counterrevolution’

Victor Davis Hanson tells us Trump is staging a two-pronged “counterrevolution.”

“One of them is to have a foreign policy that's closer to Israel, stops the Iran bomb, controls China … jaw bones Europe to be more accommodating to different views.

But the other and the more controversial counterrevolution is they say to themselves: Where is the source of power that gave us the open borders and this lunacy of 12 million illegal aliens, including 500,000 criminals … that allowed fentanyl to come in … Where did all these come from? Biological males in female sports? Where did this DEI, where did ESG come [from]?

And they came up with an answer, and they said it's endemic and institutional. And part of it is the high-levels of the government with USAID, these NGOs.

Part of it is these foundations that are not really disinterested, the Tides Foundation, the Soros Foundation.

Part of it is these academics, these big blue chip universities that bring in Chinese students, overcharge them, bring in people from the Middle East, both countries illiberal, without our interests at heart. They gouge us on grants. They charge 40 to 50% overhead. They defy Supreme Court rules. They practice endemic racism in admissions, retentions, graduation ceremonies, you name it. The student loan program allowed them to gouge the public and raise tuition above the annual rate of inflation.

So they looked at all of it…and they decided, in this counter revolution, we are not just going to [deal] with the symptoms…we're going to [deal with] the root cause.”

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