Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
We’re witnessing the confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate of Donald Trump’s nominations. Many of them will not gain a lot of attention. Some did.
The two most interesting, controversial, famous, infamous—were Pam Bondi as attorney general and Pete Hegseth as defense secretary. But before we get into them, very quickly, remember what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said to the Democrat minority: This will be an occasion that we make the argument against the MAGA Trump people, and we can do it by these basically two unqualified nominees.
So, Pete Hegseth went in. He was calm. He was relaxed. And apparently, his rope-a-dope strategy was…
