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🔥 Brilliant 🔥 Victor David Hanson explains Trump's Counter-Revolution, a bold restoration of traditional American values 🇺🇸, pushing back against a radical cultural upheaval with common sense and a return to normalcy:"And they call it the MAGA revolution. It's not a revolution; it is a counter-revolution. There's a big difference. This is a restoration—let's use the word 'Trump restoration.' We don't know, really, we don't really appreciate what we've been through with eight years of the Obama revolution and the four-year, more radical third term of Obama, using or employing the Waxman effigy of Joe Biden. A revolution that we've experienced was a cultural, economic, political, social revolution. It was very similar to the French Revolution under the Robespierre brothers. We should remember what they tried to do—they changed the days of the week, they renamed things, they tore down statues, they went after the churches. Does this sound familiar? This revolution that we've experienced, everything was up for sale, everything was negotiable. We invented a third gender and rammed it down people's throats. We tore down statues. We said 1776 was no longer the foundational date; it was 1619. We changed the very mechanism that we vote. We went from 70% of the electorate voting on Election Day to 70% of the electorate not doing that, either through mail-in or early voting. That was a radical change that had no discussion; it was done by fiat. It was incredible.We looked at girls' sports and we destroyed it. We said that transgendered biological males, who are now transgendered females, could compete. They won over 600 medals they took away from hardworking female athletes. We had drag shows among young children. It was an effort to change the entire Constitution. We forget that. They were trying to bring in Puerto Rico as a state and Washington, D.C., to get four instant senators. They were proud—they said that they were going to pack the Supreme Court—it hadn't been done, hadn't been tried since 1937 and it was an object of disgrace ever since, but they were proud to try it again. They talked about making the Senate look like the House. They wanted, and a lot of them were advocating, it was not fair that one senator in Wyoming, to take one example, is worth 250,000 votes, but a senator in California represents 20 million. They wanted to change the makeup of the Senate. They wanted to get rid of the Senate filibuster—remember that? They wanted to bring back neo-Confederate nullification—600 jurisdictions in the manner of South Carolina in 1832 or on the edge of the Civil War in 1860, when Confederate, neo-Confederate Southern states said the federal government's law does not apply to us. Tariffs—Yankee tariffs—no, no, we were going to override them. Andrew Jackson almost invaded the Carolinas over that, South Carolina. And so these jurisdictions said, 'Federal law doesn't apply here; we're exempt; we have our own laws; you cannot—federal immigration law does not apply here; it applies everywhere else, to you, you, you, but not to us.'So this was a revolutionary movement. Movies were different; sports were different. 'Take a knee.' And Donald Trump came in, and it was not sufficient to say, 'We're going to stop the madness of thirty-seven billion dollars; we're going to stop the madness of being short 40 or 50,000 military recruits because of this DEI,' coupled with the humiliation in Kabul. 'We're going to stop the appeasement of China.' But that wasn't all. He said the government is broke. We're going to go through all of these agencies and finally, for the first time in the history of this country, when somebody says they're going to cut federal spending and drain the swamp or cut the administration, we're going to do it. And there's going to be no changing names except to go back to traditional names, and we're not going to topple statues. And if you break the law on your own campus or you're on a student visa, you're going to go back home. So we're in the midst of a counter-revolution. It's not a revolution; you know what it is? It's a return to normalcy. It's a return to common sense. It only looks revolutionary to revolutionaries, but to the rest of the people, it is a counter-revolution to restore normalcy and bring the country from the far-left fringes back home again."