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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Only Beginning
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on January 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
Trump’s first 100 days suggest ambitions greater than FDR’s New Deal or Reagan’s revolution.
By Victor Davis Hanson
04.30.25 — U.S. Politics
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No prior modern Republican president has sought to launch a counterrevolution aimed at reversing the economic, political, cultural, social, and military progressive trajectory of the modern era.

Trump has done just that—and in his first 100 days—in a comprehensive fashion that perhaps surpasses the ambitious agendas of even the first three months of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal or Ronald Reagan’s efforts to unleash the American free market and win the Cold War.

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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history. He has written or edited 24 books, including The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.
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