{"id":487815,"date":"2021-05-09T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487815"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:04","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-conservatives-need-to-fight-back-against-corporate-americas-assault-on-their-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victor-davis-hanson-conservatives-need-to-fight-back-against-corporate-americas-assault-on-their-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Conservatives Need To \u2018Fight Back\u2019 Against Corporate America\u2019s Assault On Their Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvictor-davis-hanson-conservatives-need-to-fight-back-against-corporate-americas-assault-on-their-values%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson laid out how conservatives can \u201cfight back\u201d against corporate America\u2019s assault on their values in an interview with the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson spoke at the first annual <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/08\/first-annual-devin-nunes-freedom-festival-california-gop-trump-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devin Nunes Freedom Festival<\/a> in California Saturday, alongside Republican officials who discussed the America First agenda. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/07\/22\/victor-davis-hanson-democrats-left-wing-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats In Panic Mode As Party Reaches The \u2018Most Left-Wing Position Possible\u2019 On Immigration)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a pitchfork, peasant revolt,\u201d Hanson explained. \u201cThis is a top down, this is Oprah, this is Mark Zuckerberg. This is LeBron [ James], this is the Bidens, the Obamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most privileged, wealthy influential people in our society are telling the middle class \u2018you\u2019re gonna do that, and you\u2019re gonna do that \u2026 because you\u2019re racist, you\u2019re sexist, you\u2019re transphobic, and you\u2019re not as spiritually pure and privileged as we are. And you\u2019re losers,&#8217;\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7187854\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187854\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7187854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Davis Hanson (Photo credit: Roger Jerkovich special to The Daily Caller)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7187854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Davis Hanson (Photo: Roger Jerkovich, special to the Daily Caller)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hanson then shut down what he called the \u201cpassive resistance\u201d strategy right now from leaders on the right and answered whether it\u2019s time for conservatives to more vigorously confront powerful institutions that are hurting America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that the first three or four months\u2019 strategy of passive resistance or too noble to fight or the preference to lose nobly rather to win ugly is a winning strategy,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cI think now people on all fronts are going to have to fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have to say, \u2018you\u2019re not going to use that language against me. I\u2019m not a racist, call me that all day long, I could care less,&#8217;\u201d he added. \u201c[People] have to have an attitude of utter disdain. And then they have to be an active vocabulary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He used the example of a university having a safe space on campus, a practice he said people should label as \u201csegregationist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanson said people have \u201cpassively\u201d started tuning out Americana by turning off the TV when professional athletes start lecturing. And while turning it off is one of several strategies, the other is \u201cpolitically\u201d organizing like \u201ctake the house back\u201d to \u201cstop a lot of it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson said when a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/22\/chinese-american-coca-cola-trade-secrets-committed-economic-espionage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coca-Cola<\/a> CEO starts to lecture people as they make \u201c17 billion dollars a year, don\u2019t buy Coke.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/army-generals-diversity-women-combat-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Woke Warriors? US Generals Want More Women And \u2018Ethnically Diverse\u2019 Officers In Combat Roles)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTune out and boycott, not fuel these monsters economically,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7187849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187849\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7187849 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Roger Jerkovich, special to The Daily Caller)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649-141x120.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649-620x528-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649-768x653-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649-1536x1306-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Devin_Nunes-1-e1620520110649-2048x1742-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7187849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Devin Nunes (Photo: Roger Jerkovich, special to The Daily Caller)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lee Smith, author for \u201cThe Plot Against the President,\u201d told the Caller it\u2019s time for people, conservative or not, to vote against these corporations \u201cwith their wallet\u201d and use their \u201cspending power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that conservatives, I think that all voters should look within their hearts and say \u2018I can\u2019t support this,&#8217;\u201d Smith shared. \u201cIt\u2019s not even a political thing. It\u2019s an ethical thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s well past time,\u201d Amanda Milius, director of the 2020 documentary \u201cThe Plot Against The President,\u201d told the Caller. \u201cWe basically are in an oligarchy right now and I think that conservatives have been asleep at the switch for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milius\u00a0said \u201csadly\u201d the only thing that moves politics is \u201cmoney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/15\/dhillon-page-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harmeet Dhillon<\/a>, an attorney and RNC national committeewoman, said that it\u2019s about making \u201clittle choices everyday\u201d to support companies with the same values, noting how the left does it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, the left does this,\u201d Dhillon explained. \u201cThe left won\u2019t use your business if you aren\u2019t hiring people from unions. You know we can make those choices too. So, we need to fight like this is a fight over the future of our country. Not Republican versus Democrats. \u00a0But American versus some other way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson laid out how conservatives can \u201cfight back\u201d against corporate America\u2019s assault on their values in an interview with the Daily Caller.Hanson spoke at the first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277582,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Victor Davis Hanson: Conservatives Need To \u2018Fight Back\u2019 Against Corporate America\u2019s Assault On Their Values","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Davis_Hansen-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Victor Davis Hanson: Conservatives Need To \u2018Fight Back\u2019 Against Corporate America\u2019s Assault On Their Values","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}