On January 7, 2021 the media pronounced President Trump inert, kaput, zapped. He was soon to be impeached a second time, and tried in the Senate as a private citizen. Trump was written off by many grandees in his own party, libeled as a neo-Confederate insurrectionist, crashing in the Republican polls, and within months the target of 91 lawfare indictments in five civil and criminal courtrooms, and facing half-a-billion dollars in fines and a possible lengthy prison sentence. Yet  within two years, Trump was defiant as ever. He began criss-crossing the countries to massive rallies—between court appearances. He was soon crushing his Republican primary opponents, and convinced he could regain the presidency, despite two assassination attempts, the hatred of the frenzied  Left, and  loathed by the media, the universities, the corporate board rooms, celebrities, and most of the donor class. No matter. Donald Trump staged the greatest comeback in American presidential history, won back the White House, and began launching  the most sweeping counter-revolution in a century. Almost alone, Trump was determined to undo 100 years of the progressive take-over of our institutions, to marginalize the gloomy declinists, and to reboot the U.S. as the greatest economic, military, and political power in the world How he arose from the ashes, crushed his opponents, and sought to restore America is the story of Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald  Trump and the MAGA Movement—a carefully documented account and analysis of what Trump’s adversaries did to him, why he survived, and how he has become one of our nation's most consequential and controversial presidents. Pre-Order now

Victor Davis Hanson is pushing back on Tucker Carlson’s characterization of his views on Hiroshima. Hanson says he never called nuclear weapons “glorious,” but argued the bombings were intended to shock Japan into surrender and avoid a costly invasion. He also explains why he considers the weapon itself “evil” while arguing its use prevented greater harm. @VDHanson dailysignal.com/2026/09/23/h…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Instinct to Sympathize With the Guilty The Left has an instinct to sympathize with the guilty—from Muslim hijackers behind 9/11, to Tyler Robinson, to Hamas. So many of their claims abandon truth in favor of a narrative that benefits them. “And so when they see people who murdered 3,000 people, their little brains go victim? Check. Nonwhite? Check. Middle East Muslims? Check. They are victims? Check. I will get notoriety. I will get virtue signaling. I will square my moral circle and feel good about myself.” @VDHanson

Tribalism is growing in America and weakening assimilation, unity, and a shared national identity. Social media is accelerating racial and cultural tensions, while DEI, affirmative action, and government policies have deepened division and reinforced identity-based politics. The melting pot is breaking down as more people are defined by race, ethnicity, and religion rather than those differences being treated as incidental. @VDHanson

Victor Davis Hanson: What Tucker Carlson Gets Wrong About Hiroshima—And Me “If I wasn’t a podcaster, I would have sued [Tucker Carlson] for libel, but I don't believe in suing people for libel. “But he said that, ‘Victor Hanson's talking about the glories of atomic,’ you know, ‘nuclear weapons.’ “I wish he would produce that quote. I dare him. I challenge you, Tucker. I want you to say Victor Hanson said that nuclear weapons are either glorious or there's glories, and I did not say that.” Full episode: piped.video/9VPeoZwGZGc @VDHanson @jackfowler

Victor Davis Hanson: Why the Polls May Not Tell the Full Story of the 2026 Midterms With five weeks to go before the midterm elections, the races remain uncertain. Current polling shows Democrats with an advantage in several key contests, but questions remain about polling accuracy, campaign spending, redistricting and the records of individual candidates. Key Senate races in Michigan, Maine, Minnesota, Texas, Iowa and Kansas remain competitive, while developments in Iran, gas prices and the broader economy could further reshape the election landscape in the final weeks. @VDHanson

Victor Davis Hanson: The Sudden AI Panic Is A Classic Strategy. Just Follow the Election Calendar. Why are tech CEOs suddenly warning that AI could destroy humanity—while simultaneously opposing liability for the products they create? The history of election-year doomsday scares is abundant, from the 1968 population bomb to nuclear winter in 1984, climate change in 1992, Me Too in 2016, etc. “When you see a sudden epidemic, a melodrama, a hysteria, just be very careful because the odds are it will be in an election year, it'll be ginned up by a so-called left-wing expert, and when it's all over, that left-wing expert will be pretty wealthy.” @VDHanson

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Leftist Feminists are Clinging to the Lindsay Clancy Case @VDHanson

The United States can neither entrust AI regulation to international bodies with dismal track records nor permit Communist China to monopolize the technology. victorhanson.com/ai-and-the-…

Trump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room. Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the details.”; MS(NBC): “All the supporting details in Steele's reports are checking out, even the really outrageous ones.”; and Politico (“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”). Or maybe it was Trump’s weariness that CNN and MS never learned from their serial untruth. The former for years put on their news shows the admitted liar (“least most untruthful”) James Clapper; The latter likewise hired the twice-admitted-liar John Brennan (on his demonstrable spying on Senate computers, Brennan thundered under oath: “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that.”) So after witnessing the fake news’s spreading lies about the “walls are closing in on Trump” Mueller Investigation, ginning up the “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, running with the Jussie Smollett farce, demonizing the Covington Kids, iconizing the assailant Trayvon Martin, and promulgating the “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson fable, and on and on—I suppose Trump finally had enough. In reaction and as expected, a sanctimonious Barack Obama now has jetted out from one of his three mansions and into the expulsion controversy. And also as his wont, Obama almost immediately on spec opened himself up to the usual charges of rank hypocrisy and empty, performance-art virtue-signaling. So Obama thundered, “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News? You’re out of here.’ It’s unimaginable.” Actually, it’s not “unimaginable”, if Obama would just look into the mirror. So wait a minute. In 2009 the Obama Treasury Department tried to ban a Fox reporter from a press pool interview. Earlier during the 2008 campaign, Obama kicked out New York Post and Washington Times reporters from his campaign plane. But Obama was most notorious not for just excluding politically incorrect reporters but for surveilling and spying on them. Even liberal watchdog foundations blasted Obama in 2012-13 for grabbing the private records of some twenty phone lines used at home and on the job by Associated Press reporters. Most notoriously, it was finally revealed in 2013 that Obama’s State Department secretly had bird-dogged Fox Reporter James Rosen relentlessly— tracking his movements, obtaining a search warrant to examined two days’ worth of his private emails, and getting access to his private phone records. If Obama is still “trying to think what would have happened” when he surveilled and spied on a Fox reporter relentlessly, he can stop—since nothing as usual happened to the always exempt Obama. And Obama did not just at times eject reporters and surveille them. He also threatened to prosecute eight reporters and their sources (more than any administration before or since, including Richard Nixon’s). But he backed down when the AP and Rosen scandals surfaced and cooled down his Inspector Javert alter ego. The hammer/stiletto difference between a loud Trump and a smooth Obama? Trump blows up publicly, rails, and earns furor from “shocked”, sober and judicious journalists” who covet their White House billets—while he also earns the damnation of the liberal legacy media for his antics. But far more egregiously Obama used the powers of the administrative state, secretly and quietly, to surveille, follow, and spy on reporters and their sources, while threatening to prosecute and jail others—and he disguised his vindictiveness by his lofty tone and polished demeanor. As he anticipated, Obama’s victims and the media itself largely kept still, afraid to concede that their messianic “constitutional lawyer” possessed an Orwellian mean streak and was a far greater danger to the First Amendment. Or as the Left taught us, the fundamental threat to our Constitution is when “democracy dies in darkness.” Postscript: Obama also could not resist his “clingers” like demonization of Trump supporters, in the fashion of Hillary’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables”, and Biden’s “garbage”, “chumps”, “semi-fascists”, and “dregs”. So he also blasted not just Trump for the expulsions, but returned to his accustomed stereotype putdown of Neanderthal-like Trump supporters who are supposedly under-developed (e.g., “what that means is that we’ve have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires”): “If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks that's okay, well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires, and we've got to shore that back up.” I wonder how Obama would do that shoring up of a third of America? Surveilling, tracking, and spying on them? Note finally, that even Hillary’s deplorables were only half of Trump’s half of the nation, “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”) whereas Obama writes off a third of the entire country!

Excellent piece by @beholdisrael who quotes one of my favorite scholars @VDHanson who calls for FACTS instead of fiction re: reporting on Israel.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Psychodrama Cycle Is Designed to Win Them Elections Global warming. Nuclear Winter. COVID-19. It always seems the Left drums up a psychodrama right around elections. Perhaps the impending AI ‘doomsday’ event right around the high-stakes November midterms isn’t a coincidence. “The Democrats said, ‘The Tesla thing is done for. The ICE thing is done for. They're no longer visible in the North. They're hanging out in the South, and they're doing it stealthily. The No Kings has been done. What do we have? I know what we have. We're all gonna die from AI, just like it's used in the past. So let's gin it up, and they won't have time.’” @VDHanson Watch the full episode with Victor Davis Hanson here: piped.video/wxzKcnd07b8?si=myA3…

🚨🚨Victor Davis Hanson‘s new book, “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,” is debuting at No. 1 on The New York Times’ bestseller list. “ I don't have a big platform, like a lot of people do, but I do have some of the most loyal listeners.” The Times’ list, which has faced criticism for an anti-conservative bias, provides a snapshot of book sales data. “The Counterrevolution,” which Basic Books published Sept. 8, was already a top seller on Amazon, the world’s largest bookseller.

Victor Davis Hanson: How Obama’s Race Politics Backfired on America The Left’s emphasis on racial victimhood, DEI, and equality of outcomes has made race more—not less—central to American life, replacing an older ideal of integration and equal opportunity, Victor Davis Hanson argues on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” with Sami Winc. @VDHanson

Victor Davis Hanson‘s new book, “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,” is debuting at No. 1 on The New York Times’ bestseller list. In his book, @VDHanson argues that Trump’s years in the political and legal wilderness shaped the aggressive agenda of his second term, writes @RobertBluey. 👉 Read the full story: dailysignal.com/2026/09/17/t… 👉 Get your copy of Hanson's book here: secured.dailysignal.com/supp…

Victor Davis Hanson: Islamic Socialism is Headed for the US Democrats are elevating fears over artificial intelligence just before the midterms to attack Trump’s push for American technological dominance. Victor Davis Hanson warns that binding the U.S. to international AI controls could amount to unilateral disarmament if China and Russia refuse to play by the same rules. Victor argues that the problem with importing immigrants from failed states who lack a desire to assimilate is that they often recreate conditions for their original country’s decline. He examines Abdul El-Sayed’s supporters in Dearborn, who mourned the death of Ayatollah Khomeini as a case study for this phenomenon. Victor also critiques the true legacy of Obama, the race divisions that led to the rise of wokeness and lack of value for personal accountability in the zeitgeist. @VDHanson

🎉 It's official! THE COUNTERREVOLUTION debuts as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for both Hardcover Nonfiction and Combined Print & Ebooks. Congratulations, @VDHanson! @DailySignal

Victor Davis Hanson: Zachary Taylor’s Forgotten 16 Month Unifying Presidency In a period of presidents considered some of the worst in American history, Zachary Taylor calmed both northern and southern tempers. ”He was kind of just a caretaker. Nobody knows much about him.” Yet, his presidency was characterized by unity. Full episode: piped.video/GPxHD9x60x8 @VDHanson