Victor Davis Hanson: Don’t Ignore This—Hitler Revisionism Is Growing Online

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

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“Nazi.” “Hitler.” The smears have been used against conservatives for generations—but something new is happening. Victor Davis Hanson warns that a small, vocal corner of the Right is beginning to flirt with World War II revisionism and even speak favorably about aspects of Nazism. He explains what the Nazi Party truly was, the destruction it unleashed, and why these comparisons—and this revisionism—must be confronted immediately on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “For the first time in all of our lives, we are seeing people openly, overtly—not very many, but they have a larger audience, it seems, every couple of months—who defend Nazism and the horrors that followed from Adolf Hitler's career. And so, it's very incumbent upon us that we know what the Nazis were, when they rose, what they caused, how we defeated them, and how an American elected president or mainstream political figures, even if we don't agree with them, are not Nazis, are not Hitler-like. That is a given.” (0:00) Introduction (2:21) The Rise and Fall of the Nazi Party (4:54) Emerging Right-Wing Revisionism (5:53) Conclusion 👉 This episode is sponsored by the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Learn more: ⁠https://go.pepperdine.edu/dailysignal⁠ 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enabling notification: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉More exclusive content are available on Victor’s website: ⁠https://victorhanson.com⁠ 👉The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: ⁠https://secured.dailysignal.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're hearing this epithet, invective, smear, slander, Nazi, Nazi, Nazis, Hitler, all the time now.
0:07.0	We're accustomed to it as conservative, it seems almost every time there was a Republican president in office,
0:14.0	the left smeared him as a Nazi. Mostly it's from the left, left, left, they call everyone, Hitler, They've called Trump every aspect of Hitler and Nazi.
0:22.7	We hear it all the time.
0:23.6	But what's new now is that there is a small segment on the right that while not proclaiming
0:30.6	to be Nazis, of course, or Hitler, they are referring to World War II in general and specific aspects of Nazism and Hitlerism,
0:42.1	not in a negative sense.
0:53.8	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
0:57.2	We're hearing this epithet, invective, smear, slander, Nazi, Nazi, Nazis, Hitler all the time now.
1:05.3	We're accustomed to it as conservatives.
1:07.2	It seems almost every time there was a Republican president in office, the left
1:13.9	smeared him as a Nazi. Remember George W. Bush, we were told by George Soros, the dean of the Yale
1:21.4	Law School, that he was Hitler-like, that he had Nazi propensities, I think a minister in the German
1:28.6	government of Angela Merkel called Bush a Nazi.
1:32.6	And now with Trump, we hear that slander even more.
1:35.2	What are Nazis?
1:37.2	Nazi is referring to a political party between 1920 and 1945, just 25 years, that in the ashes of the defeat of World War I and the Great
1:48.8	Depression, it played on the fears of Germany, and it created something called the National
1:55.8	German, National Socialist German Working Party, Nazi. That's the abbreviation. And its aim was to
2:05.8	substitute nationalism and race for class so they could compete effectively with a communist socialist.
2:16.6	So they didn't say we're not socialist. They said we are
2:19.5	socialists but we're national socialist and we are essentially a big union of German
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