Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About Elite Environmentalism and America’s Counter-Revolution

Victor Davis Hanson delivers a ruthless breakdown of the real cost of elite environmentalism — and why it’s not about saving the planet, but about controlling the middle class.

In California, gas prices are soaring past $8 a gallon, refineries are disappearing, and homeless encampments are being swept away — not out of compassion, but to clear the stage for Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions. Meanwhile, working families are left to pay the price for green policies crafted by elites who will never feel their consequences.

Hanson exposes the uncomfortable truth: today’s environmentalism isn’t about trees, it’s about power. Credentialed activists impose rules they exempt themselves from, while sabotaging housing, destroying forest communities, and weaponizing bureaucracy — all in the name of “progress.”

But the revolution they fear most comes from the one man they tried to bury: Donald Trump. He’s not inventing new tactics — he’s turning the Left’s own playbook against them. Executive orders? They pioneered them. Lawfare? They wrote the script. Now, Trump is playing by their rules, and they’re terrified.

This is no longer politics as usual — it’s a counter-revolution. Hanson warns that Trump is targeting the ideological infrastructure: radical universities, captured media, weaponized schools, and the law firms that prop it all up. The Left knows it can’t win on ideas — so it rules by raw power. But what happens when ordinary Americans start fighting back?

⚠️ This isn’t just red vs blue. It’s elites vs the rest. And Hanson says the reckoning has already begun.