For years, we have witnessed the modern left’s descent into political violence.

What began as rhetorical disagreement and debate has long since crossed into physical aggression, from the Antifa assaults at UC Berkeley in 2017 to the so-called “Summer of Love” 2020 riots carried out under the banner of BLM.

The heartbreaking and escalatory assassination of Charlie Kirk has only further revealed the radicalization that has occurred on the left.

The collective reaction across left-wing social media was disturbing. Videos circulated of liberals of all backgrounds cheering, mocking, and glorifying his death. This was not the reaction of a small extremist fringe or a few crazies—it was widespread.

As an investigative reporter, I received over 3,000 messages on X from individuals documenting people celebrating the killing. The rot runs deep, infecting not just activist circles but every profession, level, and institution—executives, teachers, doctors, lawyers, government workers, and students alike.

The rot is all around us.

The deeper you look, the more unsettling the examples become. A convicted transgender sex offender, affiliated with the SPLC and serving on Emory University’s Advisory Board, openly declared that mourning Kirk was “morally reprehensible.” At the University of Tennessee, members of the Progressive Student Alliance praised the assassination in a campus-affiliated group chat.

These were not mere lapses in judgment, either by individuals or institutions—they were the deliberate expressions of an ideology cultivated over decades. The extremists now revealed on social media clips and TikToks have clung to these beliefs for years, held varied sway over parts of our country and communities, and show no signs of abandoning their radical convictions anytime soon.

We should not expect them to.

The ideology that has corrupted the left traces directly back to academia. For decades, leftist intellectual circles have advanced the idea that “words are violence.”

It began with the claim that “words are oppression” in feminist theory, and eventually hardened into the assertion, articulated by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, that “oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.”

Once confined to the ivory tower and academic circles, this doctrine has now spread into the broader culture. This ideology has sadly been embraced across professions, generations, and backgrounds.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk did not create this culture of rot—it exposed it.

As Donald Trump correctly started in 2015, the first step in solving a problem is naming it.

The truth is simple. The modern left is a movement of violence, lunacy, and chaos. The right must be decisive and unwavering.

Political victory is our path forward. Complete, absolute, total political victory.

For God. For our family. For our friends. For our future. For us.

No exception.

If we fail to confront this radicalized movement with clarity and resolve, they will prevail.

And our great country will cease to exist.