Editing Victor Davis Hanson (section)

==Political views==
Hanson was at one time a registered member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-03-01|title=Interview with Victor Davis Hanson: 'We're Removing Saddam Hussein'|url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2003/march/interview-victor-davis-hanson-were-removing-saddam-hussein|access-date=2021-02-25|website=U.S. Naval Institute|language=en}}</ref> but is a [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] who voted for George W. Bush in the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000]] and [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]] elections.<ref>[http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,NI_Interview_0303,00.html Interview], ''[[Proceedings (magazine)|Proceedings]]'', March 2003.</ref> As of 2020, he was a registered [[Independent politician|independent]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-03|title=Denigrating Hoover|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/12/02/denigrating-hoover/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=The Stanford Daily}}</ref> He defended George W. Bush and his policies,<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200408130813.asp On Loathing Bush – It's not about what he does], Victor Davis Hanson, ''[[National Review]]'', August 13, 2004 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724132535/http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200408130813.asp|date=July 24, 2008}}</ref> especially the [[Iraq War]].<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200408130813.asp Myth or Reality – Will Iraq work? That's up to us], Victor Davis Hanson, ''[[National Review]]'', April 23, 2004{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200408130813.asp |title=Victor Davis Hanson on Bush Hatred on National Review Online |website=[[National Review]] |access-date=April 7, 2009 |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724132535/http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200408130813.asp |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> He vocally supported Bush's Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]], describing him as "a rare sort of secretary of the caliber of [[George Marshall]]" and a "proud and honest-speaking visionary" whose "hard work and insight are bringing us ever closer to victory."<ref>[http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson122304.html Leave Rumsfeld Be – He is not to blame for our difficulties] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713205844/http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson122304.html|date=July 13, 2012}}, Victor Davis Hanson, ''[[National Review]]'', December 23, 2004.</ref>
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?458156-1/after-words-victor-davis-hanson ''After Words'' interview with Hanson on ''The Case for Trump'', March 23, 2019], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Hanson, a supporter of [[Donald Trump]], wrote a 2019 book called ''The Case for Trump''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2019/03/15/feature/other-presidents-had-a-brain-trust-but-the-intellectuals-backing-this-white-house-are-a-bust/|title=Thinking for Trump: Other presidents had a brain trust. But the intellectuals backing this White House are a bust.|last=Lozada|first=Carlos|date=2019|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Trump praised the book,<ref name=":0" /> in which Hanson defends Trump's insults and incendiary language as "uncouth authenticity", and praises Trump for "an uncanny ability to troll and create hysteria among his media and political critics."<ref name=":0" />

He has been described as a neoconservative by some commentators for his views on the Iraq War<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-22-na-neocons22-story.html Bush pulls neocons out of the shadows] [[Los Angeles Times]], January 22, 2005</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7825039.stm The end of the neo-cons?] [[BBC News]], February 9, 2009</ref> and stated, "I came to support neocon approaches first in the wars against the Taliban and Saddam, largely because I saw little alternative."<ref name="WAD200807">[http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson071208.html The Neocon Slur] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213081306/http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson071208.html |date=February 13, 2012 }}, Victor Davis Hanson, July 12, 2008</ref> Hanson's 2002 ''An Autumn of War'' called for going to war "hard, long, without guilt, apology or respite until our enemies are no more."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/books/critic-s-notebook-how-books-have-shaped-us-policy.html|title=Critic's Notebook; How Books Have Shaped U.S. Policy|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|date=2003-04-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the context of the Iraq War, Hanson wrote, "In an era of the greatest affluence and security in the history of civilization, the real question before us remains whether the United States{{snd}}indeed any Western democracy{{snd}}still possesses the moral clarity to identify evil as evil, and then the uncontested will to marshal every available resource to fight and eradicate it."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schmidt|first1=Brian C.|last2=Williams|first2=Michael C.|date=2008-05-22|title=The Bush Doctrine and the Iraq War: Neoconservatives Versus Realists|journal=Security Studies|language=en|volume=17|issue=2|pages=191–220|doi=10.1080/09636410802098990|s2cid=155073127|issn=0963-6412}}</ref>

===Race relations===
In July 2013, Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] gave a speech where he mentioned that as a black man, he needed to deliver "[[the talk (racism in the US)|the Talk]]" to his son to instruct him on how to interact with police as a young black man. In response to Holder's speech, Hanson wrote a column, "Facing Facts about Race," in which he offered his own version of "the Talk," the need to inform his children to be careful of young black men when venturing into the inner city, who Hanson argued were statistically more likely to commit violent crimes than young men of other races, and so it was understandable for the police to focus on them.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-sermon-on-race-from-national-review|title=A Sermon on Race from National Review|last=Sanneh|first=Kelefa|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2013-07-24|access-date=2019-05-18|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref name="Facing Facts About Race">{{cite magazine|title=Facing Facts About Race|magazine=National Review Online|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354122/facing-facts-about-race-victor-davis-hanson|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=July 23, 2013}}</ref> [[Ta-Nehisi Coates]] of ''The Atlantic'' described Hanson's column as "stupid advice": "in any other context we would automatically recognize this 'talk' as stupid advice. If I were to tell you that I only employ Asian-Americans to do my taxes because 'Asian-Americans do better on the Math SAT', you would not simply question my sensitivity, but my mental faculties."<ref name="It's the Racism, Stupid!">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/its-the-racism-stupid/278026|title=It's the Racism, Stupid!|first=Te-Nehisi | last=Coates|date=July 23, 2013|magazine=The Atlantic}}</ref>

Arthur Stern called "Facing Facts About Race" an "inflammatory" column based upon crime statistics that Hanson had never cited: "His presentation of this controversial opinion as undeniable fact without exhaustive statistical proof is undeniably racist."<ref name="A Millennial Takedown Of Victor Davis Hanson's 'Facts About Race'">{{cite web|title=A Millennial Takedown of Victor Davis Hanson's 'Facts About Race'|publisher=News.Mic|url=https://mic.com/articles/56449/a-millennial-takedown-of-victor-davis-hanson-s-facts-about-race|first=Arthur|last=Stern|date=July 25, 2013}}</ref> The journalist [[Kelefa Sanneh]], in response to "Facing Facts About Race," wrote, "It's strange, then, to read Hanson writing as if the fear of violent crime were mainly a "white or Asian" problem, about which African-Americans might be uninformed, or unconcerned{{snd}}as if African-American parents weren't already giving their children more detailed and nuanced versions of Hanson's 'sermon', sharing his earnest and absurd hope that the right words might keep trouble at bay."<ref name="A Sermon on Race from National Review">{{cite magazine|title=A Sermon on Race from National Review|magazine=The New Yorker|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-sermon-on-race-from-national-review|first=Kelefa|last=Sanneh|date=July 24, 2013}}</ref> Hanson, in response to Sanneh's essay, accused him of a "[[McCarthyite]] character assassination" and "infantile, if not racialist, logic."<ref name="Untruth at The New Yorker">{{cite web|title=Untruth at the New Yorker|publisher=Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=6271|date=July 29, 2013}}</ref>

===Obama criticism===
Hanson was a critic of President [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/22/meet-the-revisionist-george-w-bush-pretty-much-the-same-as-the-old-george-w-bush/|title=Meet the revisionist George W. Bush – pretty much the same as the old George W. Bush|last=Drezner|first=Daniel W.|website=Foreign Policy|date=April 22, 2013 |language=en|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref> He criticized the [[Obama administration]] for what he saw as "appeasing" Iran<ref>{{cite web|title=Sizing America Up|publisher=Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=7974#more-7974|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=November 4, 2014}}</ref> and [[Russia]], and blamed Obama for the outbreak of the [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|war in Ukraine]] in 2014.<ref name="The Road to Middle East Perdition">{{cite web|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=8720|title=The Road to Middle East Perdition|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=October 13, 2015|publisher=Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers}}</ref><ref name="The Value of Putin">{{cite web|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=6999|title=The Value of Putin|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=February 11, 2014|publisher=Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers}}</ref><ref name="The New World Map">{{cite news|title= The New World Map|publisher= Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=8489|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|newspaper= VDH's Blade of Perseus|date=June 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Our Russia Experts">{{cite web|title= Our Russia Experts |publisher =Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=7721|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=July 30, 2014}}</ref> In May 2016, Hanson argued that Obama failed to maintain a credible threat of deterrence and that "the next few months may prove the most dangerous since World War II."<ref name="How Barack Obama's Foreign Policy De-Stabilized the World">{{cite web|url=http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=9308|title=How Barack Obama's Foreign Policy De-Stabilized the World|first=Victor Davis|last=Hanson|date=May 19, 2016|publisher=Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers}}</ref>