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Americans who still believe in law, order, and common decency should be alarmed by what Megyn Kelly and Stu Burguiere exposed on her show: a coordinated effort by parts of the media and the left to both-sides political violence while excusing or rationalizing attacks when the perpetrators fit their narrative. Kelly and Burguiere rightly call out the spectacle of the mainstream press pretending there’s moral symmetry here, even as the evidence points in one disturbing direction.
The latest example of this rot is the New York Times platforming of Hasan Piker, who went so far as to describe the slain UnitedHealthcare CEO as guilty of “social murder,” language that comes dangerously close to justifying assassination. Nobody on the right celebrates wrongdoing, but it is a grotesque moral inversion for major outlets to normalize rhetoric that helps explain or excuse violent acts. The public deserves better than platitudes and equivocation from outlets that claim to set the nation’s moral tone.
Let’s be clear about the real crime that sparked this debate: Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot on December 4, 2024, and suspects were later arrested and charged in that brazen attack on a Midtown street. This was a horrific, targeted killing that victimized a family, not an abstract policy. Any commentary that treats a murder as an intellectual exercise or an understandable outburst is a betrayal of decency and a danger to public safety.
Compounding the problem, the same New York Times discussion featured cultural figures openly rationalizing theft and “microlooting” as political protest, signaling a broader intellectual collapse on the left where lawbreaking is framed as righteous rebellion. When elite media celebrates shoplifting and treats murder as a symptom rather than a crime, they send corrosive signals to impressionable, angry young people who already feel untethered. This isn’t edgy commentary — it’s the intellectual scaffolding for chaos.
Researchers have warned that younger cohorts are more susceptible to extremist justifications, and formal studies show higher willingness among younger respondents to countenance political violence than among older Americans. That trend should chill every parent, teacher, and patriot: when a generation is taught that institutions or private actors are fair game for lawlessness, the social contract breaks down and the consequence is more violence, not less. We must confront the roots of that radicalization rather than sanitize it for clicks.
There must be consequences for those who platform and amplify rhetoric that edges toward moral endorsement of violence. Social platforms, publishers, and advertisers should ask themselves whether they want to be on the side of law and civilized debate or on the side of dangerous moral relativism that excuses killing and theft. Conservatives are not the problem; the problem is an ideological class that prefers narrative and grievance to responsibility and restraint.
Hardworking Americans of every party should reject this fashionable nihilism and recommit to the values that keep our communities safe: respect for life, property, and the rule of law. Call out the double standards, demand accountability from the media elites who normalize violence-friendly rhetoric, and stand tall for a peaceful, prosperous republic where disagreements are settled at the ballot box, not in the streets.
