Victor Davis Hanson Tells Why He Left National Review & Lost All His Friends Over Trump

Tucker interviewed him but the clip was played this morning on Fox & Friends First. Bonus pics of Jillian Mele at the end.


Victor: Yeah, I lost all those friends. I left National Review this year after 20 years. And I think they were happy to see me leave too.

Tucker: Why did you leave National Review?

Victor: Because there were issues that were popping up and I could predict what the answers were going to be. The Covington kids, I just sensed it before we knew anything, people at National Review condemned them.

Tucker: People at National Review condemned the Covington kids?

Victor: Yes, they were people in the Republican establishment who felt it’s their duty to internally police their own and they saw that as a virtue signal to the left.

And they are no longer empirical. You saw that on January 6. We all condemned that for the riot but within two weeks I said to myself, Ashli Babbitt was shot unarmed and we don’t know anything about the specifics, about the policeman. We don’t know anything about the report. When a policeman shoots an unarmed person, there are pictures everywhere. They have Officer Sicknic lie in state but I want to know where is the evidence that he was killed? We didn’t know he wasn’t killed and no one at National Review cared. I was the only one asking those questions.

There was talk of insurrection but there were no arms on the people. They’re not even being charged and tried with dispatch. They’re sitting in indefinite purgatory. These issues, I was concerned about them and I tried to convey those concerns but they felt, I can’t say they all but most of them, felt it was their duty as Republican establishment class members to tell the world they didn’t approve of Donald Trump‘s tweets or words or his crudeness.

And my message was always but it’s good for the middle class. And he’s kind of like a Shane, High Noon, Magnificent Seven, he’s a gunslinger that we hired and the townspeople are impotent. And he came in and he started to have success. And we’re concerned about we don’t like what he says and he has to ride off into the sunset. We disagreed on the issues that we thought were important so I think it was a good parting of the ways.

Tucker: What issues did they think were important?

Victor: A sober and judicious way of looking at the world, adults in the room if you will. And it’s more about a political culture than an ideology or a cause to them. I thought it was going to be, we’re going to focus on the Constitution, the importance of rural America when Jefferson said it won’t work if everyone is piled into cities because they’re subject to mass hysteria, or Tocqueville. I thought they would be concerned with the middle class but I don’t think they were and I don’t think they are. It’s all about the political class.















For the ladies and the gay dudes, they also interviewed two grizzled guys at some skeet shooting competition in Nashville.