Victor Davis Hanson, the renowned American historian and political commentator, has joined The Daily Signal as a senior contributor. This transcript has been lightly edited.
It’s Monday, Inauguration Day. It’s also Martin Luther King Day, and the two dates coincided this year. And Donald Trump has just finished his inaugural address. The reaction to it was varied. I scanned the mainstream media, the network news, some cable outlets, and there was sort of outrage, outrage at the ambition of the Trump revolution and outraged at the direct criticism of people in the audience that had engineered or were part of the Biden tenure.
But it was comprehensive as far as the agenda that, I think, is going to bother people. It was holistic, 360 degrees, 24/7.
We’re going to close the border. We’re not just going to close the border, we’re going to deport people who came…