Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson recently laid bare what every patriotic American has suspected: the Left’s meltdown over President Donald Trump is not about policy disagreements, it is about panic. Appearing in media clips and interviews tied to Mark Levin’s Life, Liberty & Levin universe, Hanson explains that the Left’s fury stems from losing their cultural monopoly and the fear that Trump’s practical, nationalist agenda will stick.
Hanson reminds viewers that this rage is predictable when a populist upends the comfortable assumptions of a globalist elite that long governed by norms and soft power rather than results. As a scholar and commentator who has defended Trump’s unvarnished approach in print and on air, Hanson frames the reaction as hysteria born of self-preservation by those invested in the old order.
On substance, Hanson doesn’t flinch from the hard facts: tariffs, border enforcement, and rolling back woke mandates are not irrational acts of cruelty but sensible rebalancing after decades of one-sided globalism and ideological capture. He points out that much of the criticism is performative outrage; when other countries do the same things to protect their industries, elites suddenly insist American sovereignty is a sin.
More important than any single policy, Hanson diagnoses the structural cause of the commotion — the Left’s control of media, academia, entertainment, and the administrative state gives them the power to manufacture perpetual scandal. This asymmetry, Hanson warns, is why any genuine counterrevolution to restore common sense will be met with a howling, coordinated campaign to delegitimize it.
Patriots should take comfort in Hanson’s blunt observation: the Left’s hysteria exposes weakness, not strength. When the establishment resorts to constant denunciation and legal persecution, it reveals that arguments and persuasion have failed them; only persecution and suppression remain.
Conservatives must therefore stay steady and unapologetic: defend secure borders, economic nationalism, and merit-based institutions while calling out the media and bureaucratic elites for what they are — frightened gatekeepers of a failing status quo. Hanson’s voice is a rallying call to hardworking Americans who want their country back, not to indulge the hollow pieties of those who would remake America in anti-American image.
If the Left’s reaction is any indication, the policies on the table are hitting at the heart of a system that has profited from drift and decadence for decades. That is exactly why honest, tough-minded governance is necessary, and why Hanson’s analysis should steel conservatives to keep pushing until the people’s government reflects the people’s values again.
