This is amazing for Victor Davis Hanson, very different than if Rush had said the same thing. I have read a huge amount of his work, and VDH has never come across in any manner other than objective intellectual. This article is very likely accurate, but its conclusions do not have the usual intellectual hedging as a nod to objectivity. I am genuinely shocked that VDH would write this even if it’s what he thinks.
The only plausible explanation I can find is that VDH has been analyzing what happened for a very long time with his powerful mind. He has been unable to find any other logical explanation, so he decided to publish something that seems on the surface out of character. His analysis has no visible holes at all, and I cannot imagine a logical explanation other than the conclusion he published. Impressive . . . and frightening.
That was my conclusion as well.
Add to that the fact that the classically educated Hanson was stumped by Trump when Trump started knocking off his primary opponents. So he has had to overcome a profound case of WTF re: Trump.
That said, it looks like VDH is catching on. I think his capacity to understand complex social, political, and military shifts is enabling him to develop a better late then never sense of clarity about what has been happening in DC.