Victor Davis Hanson: President Trump Is Undoing a Destructive Revolution 50 Years in the Making

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🗓️ 23 July 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today’s revolutionary movement to subvert America’s integral values has been 50 years in the making, and President Trump is the first true counter-revolutionary challenging the Left’s narrative. Unlike the Bushes, John McCain, or Mitt Romney, Trump is signing legislation and implementing policies to end the revolution, from classrooms to the military to the border. “He’s the first authentic counter-revolutionary since Andrew Jackson,” says Hanson. Who would’ve thought America first policies could solve most of the country’s problems? Visit http://www.JoinADF.com/HANSON or text HANSON to 83848 and for a limited time your first gift to ADF will be DOUBLED by a special matching grant—while funds last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.5	Whether we realize it or not, we've been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about
0:44.5	50 years.
0:45.8	It was anti-American, it was anti-Western, and it glorified other modes of civilization, socialism,
0:53.2	communism, anarchism.
0:55.0	The Republican and conservative movement had just tried to slow it down, and then came to
0:59.0	Donald Trump.
1:00.0	He was a true counter-revolutionary.
1:02.0	He's trying to undo the entire half-century progressive project within four years.
1:21.7	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:26.2	I'd like to speak today about revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries.
1:29.9	Whether we realize it or not, we've been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about 50 years. And by that I mean there has been the effort of
1:38.5	most of the Democratic Party and now the radical elements to accelerate that efforts as
1:43.9	emblemized by the Democratic Socialists
1:46.7	to take control of government, expand it, redistribute income so that many people in blue states,
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