How Victor Davis Hanson became the historian of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement

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Victor Davis Hanson wants to make it clear: Although he voted for Donald Trump, when he writes about the president, he is doing so as a historian, bringing the same dispassionate eye to the work as he does when writing about warfare in ancient Greece. “My interests are not in defending or attacking Trump but in offering an explanation of why he did not disappear from the political scene and likely will not for quite some time,” Hanson writes in his latest book, “The Counterrevolution,” which chronicles what he calls Trump’s “wilderness years” between presidencies and the factors that led…

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