Indeed. Yesterday, in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s bizarrely laudatory interview with a crank historian that casts Winston Churchill as the chief villain of World War II, a number of conservative commentators spoke out to rebut and debunk some of the revisionist claims made in the podcast. I aggregated some of the better observations in last night’s Final Word, but absent at that point was a definitive response from any historian with deep credibility on the Right, of the same stature (or at least reach) of Carlson.
Today, Victor Davis Hanson has entered the chat. In a lengthy essay at The Free Press, Hanson pierces every claim in the interview, and then some. The “gravity of [Darryl] Cooper’s falsehoods” requires a full-spectrum response, Hanson writes, and that’s what he delivers.
It’s almost too detailed to excerpt effectively, but this may sum up his case for historical…
