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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was already positively impacting the world with his indefatigable, peaceful, joyful, godly work to change hearts and minds, but in mere days, his assassination by a cowardly sniper’s bullet has already launched a tsunami of change he likely could not have imagined. The world is entering a different epoch now, and as with all shifts into a new age, there will be birthing pains.
I can’t recall whose insight this was, but someone online observed that Charlie’s murder was an “Archduke Ferdinand moment” – referring to the assassination that triggered World War I. I think that captures the sobering magnitude of Charlie’s martyrdom (yes, literal martyrdom; as others have pointed out, Charlie was killed not for his politics but for his Christian faith, which shaped his political positions). But his brutal murder drives home the point that we are already in a hot civil war in this country – not just a culture war, not a figurative civil war, but a hot civil war.
But so far only one side has been waging that war. From the assassination of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson at the hands of a terrorist-turned-Left-wing-folk-hero, to the slaughter of Catholic schoolchildren at the hands of a demonic trans terrorist, to Charlie Kirk at the hands (allegedly) of a Left-radicalized young man (with a trans partner) who declared that “some hate can’t be negotiated out,” the Left has already declared war on the political opponents they deem to be fascist threats to democracy who must be exterminated like vermin (hence their dehumanizing rhetoric over the years since the reign of Barack Obama, intensified under Joe Biden).
I am old enough to remember another time when the Left normalized political violence in America. As Bryan Burroughs notes in his book Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, “radical violence was so deeply woven into the fabric of 1970s America that many citizens, especially in New York and other hard-hit cities, accepted it as part of daily life.” Burroughs quotes a retired FBI agent who noted, “People have completely forgotten but in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States. It was every day. Buildings getting bombed, policemen getting killed. It was commonplace.”
My record at predictions is mixed at best, so I hope I’m wrong about this one, but I believe we are about to enter a new Days of Rage. Political violence is about to become even more “commonplace.” The Left’s repugnant response to Charlie’s murder has already demonstrated that they are not going to be shocked into policing themselves and de-escalating the violence, much less their demonizing, vicious rhetoric. Some Democrat leaders, like Barack Obama, have issued obligatory, tepid statements denouncing political violence, but do not expect that any “moderate” elements on the Left will prevail. The Democrat Party is controlled by the radical Left, and has been since well before the calculated, meteoric rise of Barack Obama.
And the Right is going to have to be prepared to confront that and take the necessary steps to shut it down. I interacted personally with Charlie only a couple of times and didn’t know him that well, but I do know he would not be calling for violent retribution over his killing. And I’m not calling for it either. Nevertheless, those of us on the Right are going to have to come together and get on the same page regarding a just and appropriate response to a political movement that gleefully embraces assassination as a tactic.
We didn’t want this civil war, and we didn’t start it, but we need to be determined to end it. We can and should have many open conversations about what that might entail, but ending it has to be our end game. Our nation cannot sustain itself as things currently stand politically and culturally.
What about finding common ground and calling for unity, you ask? In an address after Kirk’s murder, Vice President JD Vance forcefully delivered a dose of hard reality about the possibility of reconciliation between Left and Right:
There is no unity with people who scream at children over their parents’ politics. There is no unity with someone who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder. There is no unity with someone who harasses an innocent family the day after the father of that family lost a dear friend. There is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. There is no unity for the people that fund these articles who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagreed.
Vance went on to note that unity is only possible “with people who acknowledge that political violence is unacceptable.” True, but this is essentially saying that unity is impossible, because the Left by and large believes not only that such violence is acceptable, but that it is a necessary tactic to dismantle what they see as the fascistic, systemically white supremacist, Trump regime. Indeed, they believe violence, when they wage it, is a form of speech, while speech, when the Right exercises it, as Charlie Kirk did, is violence – against their designated, “oppressed” victim categories.
I have written and spoken about this often in recent years: bridging the gaping political chasm in America is not possible because there are two distinct Americas today, each side passionately supporting starkly opposed and irreconcilable worldviews.
One side acknowledges that America is imperfect but still takes pride in our exceptionalism; the other side believes America is the villain of history and must be fundamentally remade from the foundations up.
One side wants secure borders, legal immigration, and America First; the other wants open borders, amnesty for millions of illegals, and submission to globalist institutions.
One side holds to the principles of the Constitution and our God-given rights such as freedom of speech; the other believes the Constitution is outdated and unwoke, that God is dead anyway, and that free speech only empowers fascists.
One side believes in the sanctity of unborn lives; the other considers the unborn a mere clump of cells that can be discarded when inconvenient.
One side believes fairness means equality of opportunity; the other believes the remedy for past discrimination is present discrimination.
One side believes nothing justifies rioting and looting; the other defends rioting and looting as reparations for slavery, and considers the terms “rioting” and “looting” themselves to be racist dog-whistles.
One side believes the news media should strive for objectivity; the other believes objectivity is a racist Western concept and that journalists should openly embrace social justice activism.
One side believes, like Charlie Kirk did, in reasoned debate; the other believes that words are violence, that there are no universal truths, and that reason itself is an oppressive tool of white privilege.
One side believes political violence is a sign of Third-World lawlessness; the other believes pre-emptive violence against political opponents is self-defense and anti-fascist.
I could go on, but the obvious point is that on literally every issue facing America today, there is a Grand Canyon-sized gulf between Left and Right perspectives. There is no way to bring these two Americas together, not even in a contentious coexistence. Matter cannot exist in the same space as anti-matter. To borrow from the tagline of the 1986 movie Highlander, “there can be only one.” For the country to survive, one of these worldviews must resoundingly defeat the other in the marketplace of ideas, in the halls of power, and if necessary, in the streets.
We are way past the point where the Left will heed pleas for unity and civility; their lust for total power has vaulted them beyond law and order, beyond morality itself when it comes to crushing political opposition.
For the two Americas to find any common ground to work toward unity, they must share at least a few essential points of agreement like a love for country, a respect for law and order, and a shared sense of American identity, among others. But as long as the country is stretched to the breaking point between such ideological, existential, and moral opposites, the two repelling poles cannot come together. There can be only one.
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Well said. The only way forward is to ruthlessly crush leftist organizations and ideology and pour salt on them so nothing ever grows there again. Between the Crossfire Hurricane hoax, the J6 Fedsurrection and aftermath, Operation Arctic Frost, Antifa terrorism, the NGO audits/Soros RICO cases, Covid crimes/tyranny and immigration invasion/human trafficking crimes there should be enough to put 80% of the Deep State/leftist cretins in prison.
Hopefully, the Justice Department will aggressively go after these domestic terrorists before the 2028 election if the rinos aren’t able to divert us off the road to survival, like they’ve been doing since the 1970s.
There is no reconciliation poss, because the Left doesn’t believe in a shared American identity.
It reminds me of the two state solution with Israel and Palestine. No shared identity.
The Antifa scum suckers BLM and the Useless Nations and CFR are Americas worst Enemies along with the DNC
In the late 1960’s to early 1970’s the Democrat Party had two separate factions, liberals and anarchist left. The ‘liberal’ wing has disappeared as the entire party has swung to the hard left. Conservatives need to recognize this and stop referring to leftists as ‘liberals’, as the only ‘liberals’ within the current political spectrum are RINOs, who are themselves swinging ever closer to the hard left.
The former Democrat party is now a Terrorist organization controlled by the international Left.
They must now be treated as a Terrorist organization and be dispatched into Hell.
The Luciferian politics of the Left can be distilled to two words: Nihilistic Chaos.
Kick the UN out of NYC and things will improve.
Also start by asking the leftist social justice warriors questions, they will refuse to answer them but they might, just might have a brain that processes information in the background.
When having a conversation with a young liberal barman who was talking about Charlie, he asked if I was a creationist who disapproved of gays. I told him I wasn’t any ‘ism’ but asked him why evolution hadn’t removed homosexuality in a generation.
Good question. Homosexuals have been searching forever for the “gay gene.” Its discovery would remove almost all culpability and questions about nature vs. nurture. If it were genetic, it would disappear from the gene pool or become so rare as to be a statistical whisper.
We need to take back the basic professions, and pronto. This has for too long been a social climbing issue. It needs to be regarded as a practical survival issue. We can’t have education if teachers are activist brainwashers. We can’t have financial sanity if we don’t have plenty of reliable accountants. We can’t survive legally if only our opponents can effectively lawyer up. And we most certainly cannot live in a country where our nurses and doctors want us dead.
That’s why I’m persona non grata in most healthcare organizations
I am currently reading Kurt Schlichter’s latest book “American Apocalypse, the 2nd American Civil War” I have already read his companion book The Attack.
Both are must reads for patriots who believe in being ready for what I believe is coming. Think of these books as guides for an emergency
I close with my usual admonishment: ammo up, gun up, head on a swivel, don’t take no leftist B.S. There is no compromise with evil.
I’m trying to figure out which part of what you wrote got the downvote.
My guess it was the “ammo up, gun up, head on a swivel, don’t take no leftist B.S” part.
There is someone who seems to have a problem with protecting one’s self. She is a smug leftist loser who thinks she is untouchable. All I can say to her FAFO.
Remember the meaning of Highlander’s “There can be only one”. It meant all the other “immortals” had to die by bloody decapitation. And yes, we are already in a hot civil war, with the most minimal counter attack from the conservative side. Should we pursue legal redress? How? How with so many judges defying the law … and their oaths of office to set criminals and terrorist free can we do that? Can we do it with votes? Our elections are increasingly unstable, and even when we win the presidency, local races are in many places too corrupt to be trusted.
How can we react with anything less than a full wartime footing and responding, if not in actual kind, then then at least something far more aggressive than we can get with the usual legal and political tools that the left has so deftly stripped from us?
If we don’t find an answer, our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will curse us for generations.
I have only one suggestion. Forget about “There can be only one”. Let there be two. You heard it right; a two state solution. Break up the Union on the left/right axis and make two sovereign nations, with rigidly controlled borders, high walls, and severely limited immigration. The other side can call itself the Union of Soviet Socialist American States.
We’ll keep America.
Leaving the Union is surrender. Borders would never be sufficient. The Left would come for the rest. The Left has not earned whatever number of states they would be handed. Every state needs to be rescued.
Yes. The left coast, the northeast coast, and Minnesota should peacefully depart. I don’t know what should be done about the big cities in our country.
Immediate and total outlawing and suppression of Democratic Socialists of America and Party of Socialism and Liberation is a must. President Trump took a good first step by going after AntiFa and the Nazi funder of these groups, one George Soros, but more must be needed. Federal confiscation of the David Rockefeller (Tides?) Foundation and any and all monies from Neville Singham and his whore CODE PINK’S Jodie Evans should be done too.
And yes, the death penalty swift and sure for any of these Left Fascists who commit or attempt to commit murder and mayhem. Otherwise…
And do not forget to outlaw anything or any person Islamic. They have infiltrated and used our system and institutions for decades undermining our laws and constitution in order to establish sharia. They have always been at war with us even from the founding. They use idiot leftist democrats to advance their agenda. Remember the language out of Barry’s administration? Work place violence, islamophobe, etc.
The progressive left has patiently encouraged our baser human insticts through indoctrination, propaganda and the importation of hostile, third-world peoples without interest in us or our ways, but motivated only by economic interest — basically plunder with our government’s approval.
The most prosperous nations known to humanity, of which America is the best, were created by WASPs building upon the best ideas of our ancestors over the last thousands of years. They produced our Constitution as an expression of these ideas to produce a proper government and nation for our people and their posterity.
They acknowledged our Constitution was incapable of governing any other people:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/john-adams-religion-constitution
And they gave us a DUTY, when our government was no longer adequate to protect us “…to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for [our] future security.”
Can anyone say we still have such a government? Or that we have not reached the point of having a duty to provide new guards for our security?
Very well said! Spot on!
Excellent dissertation and overview, A great and concise explanation of ‘what’s happening”? I would add one more “one side this or that”….”One side is certifiably insane…the other side is not” !
Rev. Roy………<
I agree with the fact that there can be no reconciliation and no unity with the international, violent radical left in all of it’s destructive, degenerate forms. It appears that the adherence and acceptance of the phenomenon goes deeper than ever expected reaching into all of our institutions. Add to that the absurd intersection with radical Pisslam and we have a huge problem for “normal” traditional Americans and Western culture over all. The big question is; HOW DO WE RID OURSELVES OF THEM?! HOW DO WE DISPOSE OF THEM? IS THERE THE STOMACH FOR IT IN 21ST CENTURY AMERICA? There can only be 1 winner. God help us to help ourselves.
Why I wonder does FPM not provide a way to edit comments?
I know instinctively that all of the lefies are on the left hand side of the IQ bell curve. That’s why they are called the left 🙂
I remember Theo van Gogh’s murder, in broad daylight, on the streets of Amsterdam.
These hate-filled murders have been happening for a long time, the difference is that the frequency is accelerating.
And yes, the more people realise what is happening, the more possibility that there will be a violent reaction to those who are involved in these hate-filled acts of violence.
I don’t think there is a peaceful way to bring down the Left. I am horrified by how many there are of these mentally ill, violent creatures who, at one time, must have been Americans. I don’t want civil war, but the Left obviously intends to keep pushing until they get what they want, which, of course, is a country in flames. What are we to do with these broken, dangerous creatures? Do we have enough prisons for them? Enough mental institutions? Is there some way to fix them? What, apart from sending our military to quell them, will work? We absolutely cannot allow them to destroy the country.
The common denominator to all evil actions and movements is Satan. Whatever is deranged, perverse and/or wicked has its roots in Satan.
The only way America will survive is to purge the nation of Marxists. On the streets and in the universities and in Congress. It sounds dramatic but if you had a violent psycho in your house would you give him quarter?
The greatest obstacle will be the judicial branch. Judges are numb to the danger of their passive treatment of vile leftists.
Shut down Soros and any wealthy instigator against peace in America. Freeze the assets of these billionaire antagonists so they won’t be able to do business in America.
Trump is definitely on the right track with his designation of ANTIFA. I am confident that there is more to come as more intelligence is being analyzed.
Let’s hope civil war doesn’t break out. The damage would be insurmountable.
The worst part is them using the violent Islamists who are actually using them. Islamists will not stand for what our left is once done with their ‘help’. It has been a Muslim Brotherhood wide spread plane from 1980’s for Islam’s take over near everywhere in 2025. Here we are. Its their Global Intifada. They will put our left on steroids. We BETTER BE PREPARED.
“So, this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.’ –Queen Amida, Star Wars
What happens in a nation which has freedom but no purpose? That appears open to all the wrong things and none of the right ones, where liberty and freedom are cheapened and the founding principles of the Constitutional Republic forgotten. A place scrubbed free of morality, virtue and meaning whose laws became perverted forums for a predatory world where false ideologies have teeth. Its institutions subjugated by an Egalitarian-Bolshevistic utopian political creed which manifesto promised heaven on earth but only offered lies, manipulations, persecution, murder and tyranny. You cannot peacefully coexist in the service of G-d and the Republic and dine at the table of Demons.
“A house divided cannot stand”
We are the ‘Pre-United States’. We haven’t been united since WW2. Satan is trying so hard to destroy our country……will he win ?!