In The New Criterion, Victor Davis Hanson compares the forces behind the first and second elections of Donald Trump and finds them categorically different. The first election aimed to halt America’s perceived leftward drift and overall deterioration; the second intends to roll it back entirely, leading Hanson to describe the second Trump term as a counter-revolution. But, warns Hanson, the challenges this time are also much more formidable.
By Any Means Necessary
In the New York Post, Rich Lowry connects seemingly scattered dots including the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, political protests, attacks on federal buildings, vandalism of Tesla EVs and dealerships, gunfire directed at federal immigration agents, and relentless vilification of conservatives by leftists (including the Democratic Party’s top leadership) to assemble a thesis that the “resistance” to Donald Trump’s second term comprises a dispersed campaign of domestic terrorism.