Election 2024

What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent. He would average only about 41 percent approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls at well […]

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Immigration Outlook and Cultural Counter-Revolution

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the Johnny-come-lately media, Homan and working on the immigration problem, McConnell criticizes isolationism, Democratic Party’s reality check, Secret Service problems, daylight savings time, and the instincts of Trump. Share This

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Are the Years of Madness Ending?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Never in U.S. history has a president-elect been welcomed as the real president before his January 20 inauguration. And never has the incumbent president so willingly surrendered his last two months in office and all but abdicated—to the relief of his nation and the rest of the world. One reason

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The Verdict and the Conflict

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the Friday news roundup: Daniel Penny verdict, BLM New York founder, the fall of Assad in Syria, and the Liz Cheney files. Share This

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The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American

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What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, DC/New York political, media, and corporate nexus. But that is precisely the point—to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and

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Trump Diplomacy and California Energy Crisis

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump’s surrogate administration holding court, Trump’s middle-class coalition, the end of diversity politics, Hegseth’s mom’s email, our penitent socialist class’s California-ugly policy, how the Left rendered catatonic by the election results, and things that worry VDH. Share This

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Bombers, Bombing, and Bombed

Join the weekend episode in which Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about U.S. bombing campaigns in World War II, drones over the Pentagon, Gavin wants to get Elon, Tom Homan on Denver’s mayor, Kamala’s internal polls, and Kamala’s post-campaign speech. Share This

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Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been

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