VDH: I Didn’t See This Coming From Trump

Victor Davis Hanson delivers a sobering dispatch from the front lines of America's internal cold war

The divide isn’t just ideological anymore - it’s geographic, generational, and irreparable.

Red states are thriving.

Blue states are hollowing out.

And California is the warning label.

Hanson calls it like it is:

• The blue model is collapsing

• Fertility is cratering (blue states 1.4, red states > 2)

• Cities are broke

• Housing is a fantasy

• 4 million people are fleeing each year for good reason

The elites still sip wine behind private patrol gates, but even they know the revolution is coming for them next.

Meanwhile, the institutions that once defined American excellence - Harvard, Stanford, Yale - have sold out merit for equity theater.

Employers are waking up:

• the prestige is gone

• the talent is gone

• the woke graduates can’t think, speak, or write

But there’s a counterforce - and it's working.

Trump, against all predictions, solved the recruiting crisis, stemmed border chaos, and shattered the myths surrounding tariffs and foreign entanglements.

Why?

Because he asks the only question that matters:

Does this help the American people?

As Hanson warns, the left wakes up obsessed with power - and goes to bed furious they didn’t take more.

But their model is cracking.

And the red states, the real America, are quietly building something stronger.