Victor Davis Hanson: The Expert Class Has Been Exposed

Victor Davis Hanson just dismantled the expert class—and lit a match to the myth of elite competence.

Universities? Hollowed out. Experts? Politicized. The man fixing the country wasn’t a scholar or a general—he was a builder with instinct. While tenured ideologues and district judges rewrote immigration law from the bench, Trump found a simple truth: people will leave if you pay them. And nearly a million did.

The border crisis, the military recruitment collapse, inflation—none of it required a PhD to understand. But the institutions lied anyway. Because Trump didn’t fit the image. Because he exposed them.

He knew what people wanted—common sense.
And the establishment’s response? Smear him, sabotage him, then steal his policies.

Hanson’s message is clear:
We don't need more experts. We need someone who remembers what a country is.