Victor Davis Hanson: Taking Down Statues Is About ‘Humiliation And Power’

Professor Victor Davis Hanson said Monday that the wave of statue removal in the United States is “about humiliation and power.”

“They always have a minority of a population that’s not about the icon on the statue, it’s about humiliation and power,” Hanson told “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

“So if you’re going to take down Teddy Roosevelt at the National Museum, why don’t you go to Mount Rushmore and blow Teddy Roosevelt up? You don’t want to do that because the people in that area of the Dakotas might resist.”

Hanson suggested that if people really want to get rid of “Robert E. Lee’s head in Washington” they would also head to Stone Mountain, Georgia and deface a bas relief monument with Lee’s image on it. “They won’t do that because they know a few people will stand up and say, ‘you’re not going to do that.’”

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