The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement by Victor Davis Hanson — from the New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump.
When Donald Trump left office in January 2021, most observers thought his political career was over. Silenced on social media, attacked in the press, and targeted for prosecution, the former president’s future looked bleak.
In the years that followed, Hanson argues, Trump staged a historic comeback — winning a second term that, in this account, launched a social, cultural, political, and economic transformation.
Hanson, a classicist and military historian at the Hoover Institution, traces what he calls the “Trump Decade” from the depths after 2020 through the Biden years, the 2024 campaign, and into the second term. He contends that the pace and aggressiveness of that agenda can only be understood as the product of four years in the political and legal wilderness — and of opponents’ tactical errors and overreach.
Packed with the author’s signature historical comparisons, The Counterrevolution is Hanson’s account of how a reelection, in his view, remade contemporary American history — and what a second term means for the country’s direction.
