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Victor Davis Hanson laid out a simple, brutal truth on Life, Liberty & Levin: the Left has gone berserk because it no longer fears the institutions it once attacked, it controls them. Hanson told Mark Levin that the cultural vandals became the cultural bosses, and that this top-down takeover explains the hysterical campaigns against anyone who resists their agenda.
Hanson explained that when the elites in media, academia, corporations, and even the military begin policing thought and punishing dissent, normal politics becomes criminalized and the reasonable majority is cast as extremists. That, he argued, is why ordinary Americans recoil and why the Left’s fury looks less like moral outrage and more like panic at losing a monopoly on power.
Make no mistake: Hanson isn’t a hobbyist pundit. He’s a Hoover Institution senior fellow and a public intellectual who has consistently argued that Donald Trump speaks for a working-class America that has been ignored and punished by the coastal ruling class. His long record of analysis explains why his observations carry weight among conservatives tired of being lectured to by elites.
Listen to the plain logic: when you weaponize the Justice Department, when you turn the administrative state into a political cudgel, and when institutions stop pretending to be neutral, you invite resistance. That resistance is what people call Trumpism, and Hanson rightly points out that it’s a reaction to decades of institutional betrayal, not some spontaneous madness manufactured by Fox or talk radio.
The Left’s meltdown is performative and defensive — a spectacle to distract from its failures. Hanson’s critique strips away the media’s moral preening and exposes an arrogant ruling class terrified of accountability and of a citizenry that wants control returned to the people. Conservatives should stop apologizing for calling out this hypocrisy and start organizing around the common-sense reforms Hanson and others keep pointing to.
For patriotic Americans who still believe in free speech, free association, and the rule of law, Hanson’s message is a call to arms: defend the institutions that matter, but refuse to let them be hijacked by partisan commissars. The only sane response to elite overreach is to reassert local control, restore merit-based standards, and elect leaders who answer to voters, not to cocktail-party ideologues.
If the Left hates that diagnosis, let them. Their hysteria only proves Hanson’s point: their power depended on our silence. It’s time for hardworking Americans to be louder, prouder, and more organized than ever — because when the elites panic, opportunity opens for those who love this country and will fight to keep it free.
