The traditional Democrat Party of the last century has been systematically replaced by a radical Jacobin movement that seeks the fundamental transformation of Western civilization.
This new faction mirrors the French Revolution’s extremists by toppling statues, weaponizing race through DEI, and showing open disdain for national borders.
From billionaire socialists to the rejection of law and order, the modern Left has abandoned the working class in favor of a revolutionary agenda that endangers the very foundations of the American Republic, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
Former FBI Director and veteran beach comber James Comey is under the microscope again, this time hiding behind a ridiculous “seashell” defense after allegedly posting a veiled threat against Donald Trump.
While the legacy media rushes to dismiss the “86/47” beach message as a harmless coincidence, Comey’s long record of selective amnesia and partisan leaks tells a much darker story. From orchestrating the Russia collusion hoax to shielding Hillary Clinton’s illegal homebrew servers, this latest stunt highlights the sheer arrogance of a thoroughly weaponized justice system.
It is past time to hold the architects of the Deep State accountable for years of lying to Congress and betraying the American people, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Is James Comey the alter-ago of Sgt. Schultz, the staff sergeant in Hogan’s Heroes? Has John Banner, who played Schultz, been reincarnated?)
No president in U.S. history has been the target of three assassination attempts in which shots were fired by either law enforcement or the shooter himself.
And yet this is Trump’s third time. Political violence doesn’t happen overnight. For almost a decade now, the Left has reified the idea that 1. Trump is “literally Hitler” and 2. that harming him is justified—Gavin Newsom and Robert De Niro talked about hitting Trump in the mouth.
Shakespeare in the Park substituted Caesar for a Trump look-alike. Anthony Bourdain said he’d poison him. And that lowers the bar.
And that means people like Cole Tomas Allen come out of the woodwork, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
We’re 60 days into the conflict, and President Donald Trump has left the Iranian regime with three options:
The non-hard-liners could agree to the United States’ terms and surrender.
The regime could continue to try and win token victories—send out small PT boats and drones to attack freighters in the Strait of Hormuz.
Delay negotiations in the hopes that a more friendly Democratic administration comes to power in 2028, offering the theocrats more favorable terms, predicts Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
Operation Epic Fury was never the pretext for a larger, endless war, and the so-called anti-MAGA right—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, or Marjorie Taylor Greene—should know better than to label it as such, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
The whole subtext of the Iran campaign is this: While regime change is not the primary agenda, America’s weakening of the regime may spur people to rise up and overthrow the government.
The Democrat Party, which brags that it doesn’t let democracy die in darkness, has a bad habit of culling candidates it feels are politically antithetical to its agenda. Take Eric Swalwell, for example.
Swalwell joined an already crowded field for California governor in November 2025. He threatened to break up the Democrat field, as there are more viable Democrat candidates than Republicans. Make no mistake: Had Swalwell been enjoying a healthy lead in the polls going into last Friday, he’d still be running for governor, and these allegations would’ve never seen the light of day.
Like Joe Biden’s failed reelection bid in 2024, the Democrat establishment made the strategic decision to no longer cloak Swalwell’s sex harassment allegations and instead threw its weight behind a more viable candidate.
Victor Davis Hanson, in a new edition of his podcast In a Few Words, concludes, “But my point is, if Eric Swalwell had been way ahead in the gubernatorial race, I don’t think that any of this would’ve surfaced. It would’ve been analogous to Joe Biden. He would’ve been a useful vessel, and he would’ve won the governorship, and the Republicans wouldn’t have had a chance.”
Eric Swalwell laid out his class motto for his high schoo9l graduation yearbook in 1999 where he wrote, “When you can’t have it, you must take it.”
Now, he’s not only been forced to resign from Congress, but it’s looking like he might be charged with rape involving underaged victims.
In other words, Swalwell flaunted social propriety. He envisioned himself another Jeffrey Epstein, chasing and seizing young poontang. Here’s more from Benny Johnson.
Here’s a brutal reality check for the NATO free-loaders!
Germany’s invasion of France wasn’t our war, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt still sent military equipment, and later soldiers, to retake Western Europe. However, Europe’s cold shoulder may not be out of spite, but an inability to help at all, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
“They have dreamed of utopia and a good life, and the result is that their fertility rate is 1.3. They are shrinking. They are aging. They’re not competitive. So they don’t have the manpower, even though they have a 450 million-person population. Europe is larger than us by 100 million. “
And even though they have a $22 trillion GDP, which is the third-largest, apparently they don’t want to invest that in their own defense, or they haven’t so far. They don’t want us to use it when we need it.”
There are two wars being fought right now in Iran: A military one, which the United States is dominating on all fronts, and a political one, which is proving more difficult than the former. Why?
President Donald Trump has a lot to contend with right now: The MAGA base, the crazy Democrat opposition, the midterms, the economy, the charge that he’s too influenced by Israel, and the general repulsion of the American people for anything to do with the Middle East, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
By all traditional methodology and criteria, Iran is now inert: Naval and air forces eviscerated, missile defenses offline, and an army rendered largely useless, as no one is fighting on the ground. However, tactical success is not necessarily equivalent to strategic victory.
It is hard to think of a single battle lost in Iraq or Afghanistan, yet the United States lacked a plan for strategic resolution in either theater. With this in mind, Iran’s current strategy is as follows: The mullahs can afford to lose their military because, ultimately, without U.S. troops on the ground, the regime will remain intact.
This, and many other factors, begs the question: Where does Trump go from here? asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “In other words, they’re saying as long as we have oil, Kharg Island, and as long as we have these huge oil fields, when you get tired of pounding us into rubble, you’re going go back to the United States. Israel’s going go back and be quiet, and we’re going get all of our oil revenues and we’re going have them. “
And we are going to buy from Russia, North Korea and China missiles, drones, recreate our own drone industry, and we probably have enough fissile material that you didn’t get, and nobody could get. It’s hidden deep in the mountains, that we will make bombs. And this time we’re going to use them because we understand what you will do next time.”
President Donald Trump has been the catalyst for a lot of the world’s current upheaval—Iranian threat decimated, Donroe Doctrine enforced in Latin America—and both members of his base and his opponents are making sure we know he’s to blame.
Three quarters of these conflicts, however, are reaching a resolution, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
“There is a good chance they could turn out with the United States in a preeminent position that we haven’t seen since at least World War II.”
Sgt. Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes
