There is a sickness loose in American culture—one far more corrosive than policy disagreements or spirited debate. It’s the worldview, proudly embraced and increasingly celebrated on the political left, that violence against innocent people is perfectly acceptable—so long as it moves their agenda forward or harms their opponents. And the evidence of this moral rot is no longer anecdotal, subtle, or theoretical. It is loud, explicit, and proudly broadcast in broad daylight.
Look at Chicago—where violent mobs surged into the downtown area, leaving eight people shot and one dead. The footage is chaotic, heartbreaking, and infuriating. Families ran for cover, small businesses were destroyed, and innocent teenagers lay bleeding in the street. But the chant that emerged from the chaos was not outrage at the violence. It was not a plea for justice or safety. It was, incredibly begging, “Bring Trump.”
President Trump later clarified that these Chicagoans weren’t calling for more chaos—they were expressing desperation. They want Trump brought in because he has pledged to end the violence that the city’s leadership has accepted, normalized, and even encouraged. They were calling for someone who actually cares about stopping the bloodshed—someone who won’t shrug while children die, someone who won’t pretend that lawlessness is “equity,” someone who won’t lecture about systemic injustice while neighborhoods burn. They were demanding a rescuer because Chicago’s mayor has abandoned them to violence.
And yet, the political left would still rather label those Chicagoans as “extremists” than admit their policies have turned one of America’s greatest cities into a war zone.
Then look to New Jersey, where a MAGA-supporting mother, a school board member, was targeted with vile, threatening text messages explicitly wishing for her death. Why? Because she dared to challenge far-left indoctrination in her district. She dared to say that children should be protected, not sexualized. She dared to suggest that parents—not bureaucrats—should raise their own kids. For that crime, political operatives targeted her family, her safety, even her life. One message expressed the hope that she would never wake up. Another celebrated the idea of her being murdered.
This is not a disagreement. This is not a debate. This is not democracy. This is weaponized hatred.
And if anyone doubts that this is now mainstream behavior, consider Virginia, where Democrats publicly stood by an attorney general hopeful who openly fantasized about killing a Republican lawmaker—a man he disagreed with on policy. This wasn’t a teenage joke or a years-old private message. It was a public declaration from a candidate for the state’s top law enforcement office. And his party’s reaction was not to condemn him, remove him, or even distance themselves. They defended him. They excused him. They insisted it was no big deal.
If a Republican anywhere in America said such a thing about a Democrat, the national press would melt down. CNN would go live for a month. MSNBC would call it an act of terror. Federal prosecutors would already be drafting charges before the sound bite finished airing.
But because the target was a conservative?
Silence. Shrugs. Another day ending in “y.”
Where does this callousness come from?
It comes from a worldview shaped by decades of moral erosion. When your political identity is rooted in defending violence against the most innocent among us—the unborn—it is no surprise that every other boundary eventually collapses.
When your movement argues proudly, obsessively, almost religiously, that abortion should be legal at any moment for any reason, even to the point of partial-birth killing of a fully formed child, why would you care about eight teenagers shot in Chicago?
If your party fights with courtroom-level zeal to protect the right to dismember a nearly-born infant moments before delivery, why would the death of a school board mother’s reputation—or life—matter?
If the loudest megaphones in your coalition demand the surgical and chemical mutilation of children under the banner of “gender-affirming care,” while working to strip parents of any right to know what is happening to their own sons and daughters—why would threats of violence against someone who objects cause even a flicker of concern?
This is not accidental hypocrisy. It is moral consistency within a worldview that no longer recognizes objective good, objective evil, or objective truth.
As Marxists of the last century openly believed, the only bullet wasted is the bullet not fired at the enemy. And today’s American left openly sees half of its own country—Republicans, conservatives, Christians, parents, free thinkers—as the enemy. Not opponents. Enemies.
People whose lives are expendable if it advances the revolution.
But here is the truth they cannot face: You cannot build a just society on a foundation of blood.
You cannot preach compassion with clenched fists.
You cannot protect democracy by destroying its participants.
You cannot claim to fight for human dignity while normalizing brutality against human beings.
The American left loves to lecture about “saving our democracy.” But their version of democracy looks chillingly like the French Revolution—waving ideals in one hand and a guillotine in the other.
History has always delivered a simple verdict: Any political movement willing to harm or silence or kill those who disagree with them is not fighting for justice—it is fighting for power.
And the tragedy—the heartbreak—is that while they wage war on their ideological enemies, the real victims are too often the innocent. The children in Chicago. The families caught in crossfire. The parents trying to protect their kids. The people who simply want to live their lives in peace.
When a movement loses the ability to care about innocent life—whether in a womb or on a sidewalk—it ceases to be political. It becomes something darker.
Something dangerous.
Something that must be defeated—not with fists, not with threats, not with hate—but with overwhelming moral clarity, steadfast courage, and a fearless refusal to bow.
Because the moment good people stay silent, evil stops whispering… and starts screaming.
And America has heard the screaming long enough.
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