This week, America witnessed, in graphic detail, two horrendous crimes. This week, we received a very clear illustration that no one is safe from leftist violence, from a national figure like Charlie Kirk to an innocent woman on a North Carolina train.
After the propaganda press nearly succeeded in ignoring the story altogether, America watched the video of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska being stabbed on a Charlotte, N.C. light rail train. The harrowing footage captures her shock and disbelief as she bleeds out on the floor while her killer casually walks away, allegedly muttering, “I got the white girl.” No one in her immediate vicinity lifted a finger to help her as she died.
Zarutska’s alleged killer, Decarlos Brown Jr., had been arrested 14 times, had been let out onto the street despite his well-documented mental illness, and had been released by a judge who was woefully underqualified to be anywhere near the bench.
Then, on Wednesday, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated during an event at Utah Valley University. The footage is too graphic to post here, but Kirk was gunned down in cold blood doing what he had done for years — attempting to engage in a meaningful dialogue with the left.
Kirk’s last X post before his assassination demanded justice for Zarutska’s murder: “It was politics that allowed a savage monster with 14 priors to be free on the streets to kill her.” He was exactly right.
The destruction wrought by Black Lives Matter ushered in ongoing lawlessness in most big American cities, and leftist-run city government and district attorney offices did nothing to alleviate that feeling. In fact, they poured gasoline on the fire with insane policies like instituting cashless bail, slashing resources for law enforcement, decriminalizing homelessness, and even letting criminals out of jail, all in the name of “social justice.”
Leftists intentionally sowed the chaos that now plagues America’s cities and created the conditions that led to Zarutska’s murder. If you want evidence, look no further than President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in our nation’s capital.
Almost overnight, Washington, D.C. saw an almost unfathomable drop in murders, carjackings, and other thefts. Homeless encampments that had festered for years were easily swept away.
It proves that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser could have stopped the madness at any time, either by requesting aid from the federal government or empowering her police department to restore law and order. But the lawlessness was a feature, not a bug.
Likewise, years of assassination prep language from the left paved the way for Kirk’s assassination. Indeed, such rhetoric has become part of the everyday vocabulary of leftist politicians and foot soldiers alike.
Kirk even pointed this out only a few months ago. A staggering 55 percent of leftist respondents to a Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) study said murdering President Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”
“The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response,” Kirk posted on X in April in response to the report. “This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.”
Ghoulish leftists quickly crawled out of the woodwork to gloat about Kirk’s death, while the usual suspects in the leftist media ran interference by questioning the killer’s possible motive (as if it isn’t obvious) or trying to blame the victim. In perhaps the most stark demonstration of the left’s utter callousness, Democrats in the House of Representatives began shouting “no!” when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., requested that a prayer be said “out loud” for Kirk.
Many leftists who worked tirelessly to lay the groundwork for this violence are now saying that we need to “come together” and “have a conversation.” Except their past rhetoric just contributed to the death of a man whose entire career was built on having the very conversations they now claim to want.
New reports suggest Kirk’s assassin was motivated by Antifa and transgender ideology, similar to the murderer who killed two children at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis shooter, Robin Westman, decorated his weapons with transgender expressions.
His manifesto was filled with demonic imagery, and he believed he was possessed by a demon. So did the Covenant school shooter, who identified as transgender and called herself “the Devil’s apprentice.”
We simply cannot coexist with people who allow and even encourage lawlessness and wanton violence. A country simply cannot survive when a portion of the population relishes violence against their political enemies, especially when that portion includes many people who wield significant political power over the media, academia, and other influential institutions. This bloodthirsty ideology must be dealt with quickly and decisively, or we will see more assassinations like Kirk’s and more senseless murders like Zarutska’s.
This isn’t about hating your neighbor because she put a Harris/Walz sign out in her front yard last year. This is about hating the people who emphatically want you and everyone like you terrified to go out in public and, eventually, dead.
When they say, “This is a new Democratic Party. We’re bringing a knife to a knife fight,” believe them. Do not forget that they push rhetoric that gets public officials shot and enact policies that get innocent people butchered in the streets.
Also do not forget that leftists aren’t content with targeting big names like Kirk and Trump. They’re targeting law-abiding, decent Americans every day — whether through raw state power like we saw under the Biden administration or through the anarcho-tyrannical policies of America’s big cities.
Things are falling apart; the very fabric of society is coming undone. People have had a vague sense that this was so for years, maybe decades. Every year, cities became a little less safe; political rhetoric became a little more violent.
But now it’s undeniable. There is no consensus to be reached with people who actively wish for our deaths and then gloat when some crazed lunatic tries to fulfill that wish. Either the left wins, or we win. The center can no longer hold.
As was said in Psalm 94, “The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” How long will the wicked be jubilant? Without the grace of divine intervention, that’s for us to decide.