Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Trump Is Staging a Counterrevolution’
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Trump is staging a counter-revolution, and it's two-pronged.
One of them is to have a foreign policy that's closer to Israel, stops the Iran bomb, controls China, jawbones Europe to be more accommodating to different views.
But the other and the more controversial counter-revolution 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.
Where is the policy that allowed fentanyl to come in?
Where is the policy that allowed our alliances to be asymmetrical?
Where did all these come from?
Where's boys, biological males, and female sports?
Where did this DEI come?
Where did ESG come?
And they came up with an answer.
And they said it's endemic and institutional.
Part of it is the high levels of the government with USA, 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 interest at heart.
They gouge us on grants.
They charge 40 to 50 percent 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, the media, and they decided in this counter-revolution, we are not just going to do with the symptoms, close the border.
We're going to do...
The root cause.
So we're going to tell the universities, no more federal money until you stop the anti-Semitism, you stop the surcharges, you stop the reverse racism, you stop the getting money from China and Qatar, not reporting it, all of that.
Then they looked at the foundations, and this is really happening this week.
They're saying that foundations over $5 billion are going to start paying taxes on their...
Interest income, because you're just funding one side.
And then they're saying to the media, we're going to get rid of NPR and PBS because they're propaganda organs.
And then they're looking at USAID, and they're saying these are NGOs, they're not USAID, they're just basically sinecures for left-wing rotating politicians.
So they're trying to deal with the root causes, and that's what worries the Democrats and the left, because they've never seen an administration that would dare do that.
That would dare question the source of their power.
The Trump administration is saying on every single issue that we ran on, it was 55, 45, 70, 30. There was no popular support for the Harris or Biden agenda.
But those agendas were actualized because of these institutions.
And they would say 51 intelligence authorities on the last debate, right before the 2020, lied to the people and said that the laptop was, or Russian collusion, or the Mar-a-Lago raid, or trying to get him off the ballot in 25 states, or 93 indictments with these left-wing.
That's what they're after.
Blue-chip law firms, Perkins Coie, that was knee-deep in the Russian collusion hoax.
I don't know if they're going to get away with it or not.