Yeah a few people have brought up his name, Gingrich, and Roberts, though Hanson is more of a "practicing" historian than the other 2 I would argue. But what does his "practice" look like, thats the question. I genuinely don't know as I...don't read his work lol.
He became well known providing comps from the classics in the GWB era for those wars, complained about illegal immigration through the Obama years bc it was supposedly negatively affecting his California farm, so was primed to hop on the anti-immigration Trump train. Wrote a book on hoplites…
and Thomas Sowell? More of an economist perhaps but an economic historian too.