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If Donald Trump Did What Obama Did, Media Would Cheer—So Why the Outrage Now?

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02.04.2026

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Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. Contact him at [email protected].

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.

I’ve talked about the opposition to the Iran War that we are witnessing, but it’s a little bit more than opposition. I would call it the “hysterics.” What do I mean by that? I haven’t seen a—since I was a student—protests, as we saw in New York, where people are proudly waving communist flags with, you know, anti-war sentiment. 

That used to be kind of a taboo. You were a communist or a socialist, but you didn’t wave the hammer and sickle, especially after the collapse........

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