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Victor Davis Hanson laid it out plainly on Megyn Kelly’s show: what we are seeing on the left is not mere disagreement but a cultural sickness that celebrates political violence and corrodes our civic norms. Hanson, author of The Counterrevolution, argued that this malignancy is ideological, organized, and growing more brazen by the day, a reality that Megyn Kelly pushed him to name plainly for mainstream audiences.
The raw facts are sobering — Charlie Kirk, a prominent voice for young conservatives, was shot and killed during a campus event on September 10, 2025, an assassination that stunned the nation and exposed the deadly edge of political hatred. What followed was not only grief but a cascade of evidence that some on the left openly celebrated or mocked his death, a moral collapse that demands scrutiny and accountability from institutions and the media.
Documentation shows professors, campus activists, and online influencers responded in ways no civilized society should tolerate, with dozens of faculty members facing investigation, suspension, or termination after making remarks that trivialized or celebrated the killing. Even left-wing media personalities have been recorded mocking a tribute song for Kirk in front of cheering audiences, a spectacle that confirms Hanson’s warning about the normalization of a depraved political culture.
Americans of conscience should find this intolerable: mourning a life taken by an assassin is not a political luxury but a basic human decency, and those who cheered that death forfeited any claim to moral high ground. Congress and public leaders responded with tributes and calls for unity even as the prosecution of the accused moves forward, reminding us that the rule of law — not mob vindictiveness — must define our response to political violence.
Conservatives cannot be passive while a faction of the political class loses its moral compass; we must name evil, defend free speech for all, and insist on consequences when institutions tolerate celebration of murder. Hanson and Kelly are right to diagnose the sickness, and hardworking Americans should take that diagnosis as a call to rebuild civic virtue, demand accountability, and stand unapologetically for the truth about what kind of country we will be.
