Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Anger is Proof Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Working

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

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Not only is Trump succeeding, he is exceeding expectations as well. But the Left is not going down without a fight. Victor Davis Hanson explains the challenges being poised against Trump’s counterrevolution, and what he believes are the next steps on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ The symptoms of the progressive project are not just the Democrats exercising power in Congress or holding the White House, it's how they get that power. And they get that power through PBS and NPR, now defunded; cable news and slanted network news, now under assault when they lie and defame and face court ramifications. “ The majority of the American people oppose [Democrats’] agenda. And they do this through the bureaucracies, through the media, through the universities, through the popular culture. And these are the very sources that Donald Trump is asking them to reform. And the government is going to shrink. The government's gonna get out of the media business. The government's gonna take a hard look at universities, who want and obtain federal funds.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest 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 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com (0:00) The Greatest Counterrevolution (0:55) Trump's Radical Changes and Achievements (2:56) Public and Media Reactions (3:58) The Progressive Project (5:59) Challenges and Future Outlook (7:18) Conclusion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8	in some 90 years. We have not seen any president try to radically change the political calculus and
0:40.0	the nature of government since FDR did it during the New Deal. Donald Trump is winning on all of
0:46.0	these social and cultural issues. People are angry about this counter-revolution for two reasons.
0:51.4	It's succeeding and it's succeeding beyond anybody's wild expectation because it's working.
0:57.0	There's another reason why they're angry. We're going to see in the next year a frenzy, a frantic, almost out of mind reactions from the left.
1:07.0	Race yourself, we're looking at the resistance coming up to the counter-revolution,
1:11.9	and it's going to be fierce and unhinged.
1:14.6	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:28.3	We're watching the greatest counter revolution in some 90 years.
1:33.3	We have not seen any president try to radically change the political calculus and the nature of government since FDR did it from the left during the New Deal of the mid-1930s. And what do I mean by
1:47.6	that? Donald Trump closed the border. Nobody thought he could. He closed it. He has now deported over
1:54.4	100,000 criminal illegal aliens and one million have self-deported of all statuses who were here illegally.
2:03.6	He's basically declared war on DEI and he's winning that argument.
2:09.6	He has barred biological males from competing in women's sports.
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