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We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016.
The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.
Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.
Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.
Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad.
The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them.
The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens that they were not crazy.
Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic, and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status.
The FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control.
President Joe Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was.
Criminals with weapons are as deleterious to society as law-abiding citizens deprived of them.
It is not a thought crime to believe there are two sexes—not three or four or more. No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, disconnect their natural gas stove, or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions.
Americans should speak their minds and write what they wish without worry of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxxed, or shadow-banned—or jailed.
Campuses are not oases of tolerance, disinterested inquiry, and free expression.
They instead increasingly became overpriced indoctrination centers that shred the Constitution and graduate indebted students who know less—but are far more biased—than when they enrolled.
Trump and his MAGA appointees promise to slash over a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget, disbanding entire agencies.
Is the objection that an ever-expanding government—$37 trillion in debt, running nearly $2 trillion in annual deficits—should keep growing?
Trump pledges to reform the Pentagon—ending DEI Pentagon commissars and revolving-door corporate generalship.
He vows to hold the 4-star class responsible for the catastrophe in Afghanistan and to reenlist soldiers who were driven out due to draconian vaccination mandates or woke intolerance. Trump envisions changing the entire system of military procurement.
Does the status quo object on the grounds that our military leadership has been winning our wars abroad?
Is the Pentagon currently awash in eager recruits?
Has it stockpiled a huge surplus of shells, bombs, and rockets?
Trump promises historic deportations of the 12 million who destroyed the southern border and surged in without health or criminal audits.
Trump vows to rescue swamped social services and stop crimes by illegal alien felons.
Is that really worse than the Biden administration’s original massive importation of millions of illegal aliens, empowered by drug-importing and sex-trafficking cartels?
Who are the culpable? Those flagrantly mocking and breaking the law, or those vowing to enforce it?
Trump says he will deter enemies without bogging America down in “endless wars”—and did just that in his first four years as president.
Is the current alternative preferable to convincing enemies that there are few consequences to their aggression, sandbagging allies like Israel, or feeding the war in Ukraine without any plan of either winning or ending it?
The Trump revolution is also cultural and social. Shared class interests have replaced race, ethnicity, and gender chauvinism.
Athletes of all races are no longer taking a knee in protest of America’s supposed systemic racism during the national anthem. Sometimes they celebrate their scoring by doing honorific Trump YMCA/golf-swing dances on national television.
Enlistments to help craft the Trump counterrevolution are not always predicated on degrees, conventional resumes, or past lengthy government service. Race and gender do not determine qualifications alone. Nor does class.
Common sense, successful lives outside of government, and a desire to end the current nonsense count instead as better prerequisites.
For Trump, party identification, titles, and traditional prestige matter less as he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan.
The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on—content that it need not be perfect to be better than all the alternatives.
The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting anti-Semitic venom is passing.
So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity.
The American People Voted and reelected Trump since we Ignored the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and Sewer Dwellers in the M.S. Media and if you wont abide by the Will of the People then you should Leave just get someone to help you Pack
So the perfumed princes at the Pentagon, the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ are going to have their robes substantially trimmed. Thank God the 30 year grift is coming to an end.
First one on my list to ne neutered…..Victoria Nuland. Yeah I know, she made her exit a few months ago but she is still responsible for the misery she has caused with her color revolutions.
Despite their voluntary retirement, can they be charged with crimes? Real crimes that can revoke their retirement pay and freedom? Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins come to mind here.
If Trump can be forced to deal with lawfare crap then these cheap leftists should certainly be charged with crimes.
I think Trump should commission a court with a hanging judge specifically designed to deal with his political enemies, who are all criminals. And there’s a long list of those criminal scum. All anti-Americans.
Seriously. I practically dream of it.
What is it with dykes like Nuland? Why are they all so racist? It’s not like they ever get any dick anyway.
Trump in 2016 pulled back the curtain and revealed the government corruption and the people now in 2024 have finally awakened and are ready to dismantle the federal governments massive waste and bureaucratic bull crap.
Thank you Mr Hanson-as usual- more Gold! Your essays instill hope and boy do we need this! America needs this as
a lot of articles in this magazine are very good but uninspiring. As an aside- I was listening to Mr Byron Donaldson on
the news and he’s great-love him. But he doesn’t really inspire because as a congressman- he’s got to follow up with
action. I don’t know if this is because he’s up against a brick wall or what. Maybe because he’s a politician,Trump is
not a politician. HE GETS THINGS DONE!!!
In addition to MAGA, MASA–Make America SANE Again.
May things actually play out the way VDH envisions it. I am still holding my breath, metaphorically.
Mr. Hanson, it is truly sad how you have become the Sean Hannity of intellectual apologetics for Trump. No mention of the horrific nominees for Attorney General, Defense, National Intelligence, Education, FBI, Health…….a clown car of sexual offenders and intellectual lightweights. That is because your man is intolerant of any equal who is not subservient to his ego and his need for the spotlight. You said on a recent broadcast that Hitler was a pathological liar, yet you cannot recognize the same trait in the man you laud as a savior of — not sure what. And the billionaires are in line to line their pockets.
it is one thing to say roll the dice on Trump one more time because major reform is needed and perhaps he might give it a shot. It is another to ignore his insanity and call it sane. that is a dereliction of duty, sir.
Please cite verifiable references for these allegations against Trump.
Furthermore, are you willing to apply the same yardstick to Biden’s cabinet?
Take a breath before you let hysterical TDS rule your mind.
And, consider that the large number of people who support and voted for Trump are not village idiots, but in fact are often highly educated and successful business people who share his views as they are explained in VDH’s article.
Unfortunately there is a lot of truth to what you stated. His current cabinet picks reflect it. Everyone is cheering prematurely.
Many of us knew the first 3 months of Trumps first term were off, his actions proved it throughout the remainder of his term.
I want to say I am cautiously optimistic but cannot.
I suspect he will throw us some pocket change but the remainder of his actions will show his real intentions.
His first action, tariffs tariffs tariffs which mean higher costs for everything Americans purchase. Everyone knows you don’t levy tariffs unless you have a manufacturing base to compete. We do not have that, and US corporations made it clear to Trump they will NOT be returning.
As I said, pocket change is what we will get at first.
I will gladly admit being wrong if Trump proves me otherwise – he won’t.
The ladies on “The View” have been forced to read legal notices day after day for making the same “sexual offenders” claims. Does that tell you anything?
Two weeks have gone by and you’re still butt hurting over Trump beating the snot outta your girl Kamala? Dude, it happened! Get over it already!
By the way:
You might wanna try massaging your butt with some Vick’s Vapor Rub or Icy Hot to ease the pain And instead of mewling about Trump in this forum, go hide in your closet and beat up that new “Trumpinator Teddy Bear” you bought from Amazon! Perhaps it might be just the catharsis you need.
Seek therapy, you deviant reject.
“A simple return to sanity”
That would be so nice, but we are forgetting something, most Dems aren’t exactly sane. From Nov. 6th they have been scratching the bottom of Pelosi’s slander bowl to thwart Trump’s every move. Not to mention condemning every good thing from Trump and trying to convince people to believe what they’re told and not what they can plainly see.
I even saw a guy this morning say Trump’s victory wasn’t that great because he didn’t do as good as Raegan.
The dems crossed the bridge into insanity decades ago and burned it down behind them. As such, there is no returning from the island of insanity the dems have stranded themselves on.
The left has marched through and eventually defeated or coopted every institution its touched since Diderot and Voltaire. Trump will be little more than a speed bump on the road to whoever the left cares to lead.