Victor Davis Hanson: “The Real Reason Tucker & Megyn Abandoned Maga is Not What You Think!”
Victor Davis Hanson: “The Real Reason Tucker & Megyn Abandoned Maga is Not What You Think!”
What happens when the media champions of the MAGA movement turn their fury on the very president they helped build?
When President Donald J. Trump ordered a decisive, 24-hour retaliatory strike against the nuclear and military infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a spectacular fault line ruptured within the American conservative movement. Leading populist voices—including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones—immediately launched into an expletive-laden, apocalyptic panic, claiming the administration was dragging the nation into a cataclysmic “World War III.” Trump’s response on Truth Social was characteristically blunt, dismissing his former media allies as “nut jobs” and “losers” suffering from low IQs.
This explosive civil war isn’t just a dispute over foreign intervention; it is a profound baseline error by a media elite that has mistaken Jacksonian deterrence for a neoconservative “forever war.” By panicking over a precise, decapitating air campaign, these pundits have completely decoupled themselves from historical precedent and the actual reality unfolding on the ground in the Middle East.
The populist right has built its brand on fighting the Washington establishment. But when its primary influencers panic over a highly successful military strike, they reveal a catastrophic misunderstanding of the difference between an endless nation-building occupation and a decisive strike against a global sponsor of terror.