For 50 years a revolution has been under way in which the left has imported welfare-dependent voters, says Victor Davis Hanson. What Trump has taken on is the counter-revolution, the American historian establishes in one of his latest videos at The Daily Signal.
The figures bear witness to a population revolution that changes the political landscape in the left’s favour:

This progressive revolution does not believe in borders. It has now let in 53 million people who are not born in the USA. And in California they constitute over a quarter of the population. The proportion is higher than ever, with 16 % foreign-born. They do not trust that you, the people, will support the progressive project. Therefore they wish to import a population group that is poor and needy, in the belief that they will become voters who exchange votes for support schemes. And we saw that with the Somali group in Minnesota, and we have seen it with other groups here in California. And thereby the progressive project has given us a real revolution.

At the same time an anti-intellectual revolution has been under way at the expense of reason, societal morality and societal security:

We had never imagined that there would be more than two sexes. We had never imagined that they would try to normalise biological men taking over women’s sport or dressing as young teenage girls. We had never imagined that. We had never imagined that the prosecution authorities would release recidivists who had committed violent acts the same day they were arrested. We did not know that we would empty the prisons because we felt that punishment was too harsh. We had never really believed that we would try to distance ourselves from our only real democratic country and ally in the Middle East, Israel, and that we would try to romanticise terrorists such as Hamas.

The project has elements of socialism, communism and anarchism, and it glorifies foreign civilisations, which makes it anti-American and anti-Western, Hanson continues.
Ronald Reagan carried out a kind of counter-revolution that was purely economic, but the Republicans were generally on the defensive:

It was quite successful. He lowered the tax rate. He deregulated the economy, and in 1983–84 he achieved an economic growth of 7 % in GDP. And then of course this was diluted in the subsequent years. But the two Bushes, and candidates such as John McCain, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney – their agenda was to brake the revolution. But not to try to overturn it. What do I mean by ‘brake’? To somehow advise Hollywood that they did not need to be so anti-American and talk about race, class and gender to the point of nausea. To try to ask professional sport not to let itself be used as a weapon. To try to say to primary school: ‘Calm down a bit. We do not need sex education in first grade, and there is nothing wrong in a teacher occasionally saying a prayer which she by mistake forgot was illegal.’ ‘Calm down. You do not need to send the FBI to school board meetings.’ Such things. ‘We do not need to kneel during sporting events and ridicule “The Star-Spangled Banner”.’ So this revolution had infiltrated primary school, corporate boards, especially the universities, the media, the foundations and popular culture. But the Republican and conservative movement had only tried to brake it.

It is not until Trump comes on the scene that an attempt is made to counteract the ongoing cultural revolution. But in the first term there is too much that holds him back.

When he came back for the second time, he tried to complete the counter-revolution. So he largely abolished the subsidies to green energy and again emphasised oil and gas production, and we became the largest producer of oil and gas in the history of civilisation. He somehow said: ‘We shall not regulate AI and robotics, cryptocurrency, genetic technology or drones. We shall not legislate them out of the market. We shall not carry out antitrust investigations and complete scrutinies of all these actors. We shall promote it. We shall promote these new innovations and technologies, and look, now we are ahead of the Chinese in almost all areas.’ He did not merely say: ‘I am concerned about the military. It may be that DEI has deterred a particular population group that through generation after generation has constituted the largest share of our combat units, namely white men.’ He abolished DEI. And what did he do? What was the result? Suddenly we have reached all our recruitment targets.

But above all he will reverse the population revolution, at least partially:

He did not merely say: ‘Well, the border has been open. I know that we have let in 10 million people a year over four years. I know that 10,000 came a day under Biden. I understand that. So perhaps I shall say no to “catch and release”. Or perhaps one must apply for refugee status in for example Mexico before one comes. No, no. He said: ‘I shall complete the wall. I shall not let anyone stop me. This time there shall be a wall, and we shall deport people. We shall deport a million people in the course of my first year, and we shall ensure that a million others leave the country of their own will, and we shall go after 500,000 with criminal records.’

And increase the USA’s geopolitical weight, not least in its own neighbourhood:

He did not merely say: ‘I am very concerned about Latin America. Under Obama and under Biden we saw a wave of left-oriented governments. And the Panama Canal is in danger. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, if not in the whole world, and they export convicts and narcotics to the USA.’ He did not merely say that. He went there and in practice threatened Panama that we would take over the canal unless they complied with our Panama Canal treaty and expelled the Chinese who tried to control the entrances and exits to the canal. He said to Maduro: ‘You must stop this, for you export terror and communism and bully your neighbours.’ He did not, and he extradited him and put a stop to that threat. And now when we look at Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic – I could continue. They are for the most part centre-right. So he carried out a powerful counter-revolution by strengthening the Monroe Doctrine, which had been rejected by the left, and he made South America and Central America into a largely free market, a society that is pro-American, with a few notable exceptions. For example in Nicaragua, where a besieged Daniel Ortega and a besieged Castrist government on Cuba are now both for the first time in many years isolated.

In Europe Trump is regarded as a destroyer, but the reality is the exact opposite, says Hanson:

In addition to that he strengthened our allies. He used unorthodox methods. He was the well-known cowboy who came to help the townspeople, who had stiffened in their habits and could not cope with the robber barons, cattle barons or lawless. So he cleaned up the town, and afterwards they grew tired of him because of his methods and rhetoric. But nevertheless he said to our allies: ‘We are not going to be in NATO unless you are real NATO members. You are not NATO members. You do not rearm. You do not fulfil your obligations.’ The same applied to Canada. And look, now we have much stronger allies, and the alliance is stronger than ever.

Trump attempts to reverse 50 years of revolution in four years, concludes Victor Davis Hanson.
He has obviously thought carefully about the theme. In September his new book The Counterrevolution appears.

The question Europeans can ask themselves is whether a counter-revolution is coming in our part of the world as well. Both Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson have said that Europe needs something of the kind, but the European power class does what it can to present these and others as far-right villains.