Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right – PJ Media

September 11, 2025

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We will obviously be doing this a little bit differently today. I’ve gone lighter with the links today, and the majority of them are related to the horrible news from yesterday.

If you’re looking for something poignant, I’m not your guy right now. My colleagues have done remarkable work eulogizing and paying tribute to Charlie Kirk; there is absolutely nothing that I can add to their heartfelt words. Words that I know weren’t easy to write.

In what is a huge departure for me, I had already mapped out what I was going to write here at the top of Thursday’s Briefing before noon my time on Wednesday. It was about 9/11, although probably not what you might expect. That will be turned into a column that I’ll publish later today.

As soon as the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot hit, the day immediately became surreal blur of fast-moving information that felt like it was happening in a slow-motion nightmare. I didn’t know Charlie — he came to prominence just as my many years of activism were winding down. I have been aware for a long time of the great work that Turning Point USA does, however. I know a lot of younger people who have been politically energized by TPUSA and who had a lot of respect and affection for Kirk.

People I know who don’t pay a lot of attention to politics were devastated and glued to the news. My private messages, texts, and phone calls featured a lot of monosyllabic expletive-laden expressions of shock and outrage. Two friends offered variations on “this feels different.” That was echoed in other conversations. My good friend Kira Davis posted this on X:

If you ask me a year from now when I got radicalized – it’s today.

— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) September 10, 2025

Yes, the assassination of Charlie Kirk has pushed people to places that they never wanted to be pushed to. My use of the word watershed in the headline was deliberate because it means “turning point.” People were already emotionally raw over the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska; Kirk’s public execution is too much to process with anything but righteous anger.

I don’t care what we eventually find out about the killer, but I’m pretty confident he won’t turn out to be one of those conservative, white, Traditional Catholic domestic terrorists who the Biden administration kept telling us were threats. Everything has changed. Greg Gutfeld nailed it quite succinctly, which Matt covered:

But if those responsible thought violence would shut conservatives down, Gutfeld argued, they’ve made a grave mistake. “Um, it’s really hard to radicalize Republicans,” he noted.

“You know, it’s like we’re not the radical type. But if you thought that you were gonna shut a movement down, you’re gonna get a rude awakening. You woke us the f**k up.”

Florida Rep. Ana Paulina Luna spoke for a lot of us on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday. This is from Catherine:

Luna is tired of pretending Democrats don’t hate our country and anyone who disagrees with them. “I am done with the rhetoric this rotten House and corrupt media has caused,” she declared. “EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU WHO CALLED US FASCISTS DID THIS.”

The congresswoman declared, “You were too busy doping up kids, cutting off their genitals, inciting racial violence by supporting orgs that exploit minorities, protecting criminals, and stirring hate. YOU ARE THE HATE you claim to fight.”

A couple of weeks ago, I twice wrote about the Democrats’ desire desire to see us dead. They’re not very secretive about it. Almost every prominent Dem who blah blah-ed about violence not having any place in our political discourse has egged on the rabid base at some time during the past year.

Radicalization of conservatives is the sane response to the madness that the Democrats have surrounded us with. Apathy and the notion that there is inherent value in being moderate are out the window. Again, we didn’t want to be here. Now that we are, it’s time to seize the moment and make sure that we marginalize the lunatic Dems as much as we can.

Some of them know that things changed a lot on Wednesday afternoon. Much of the reporting in both The New York Times and The Washington Post has been rather circumspect. Given the history of the two organizations, we can file that under “Too Little, Too Late.”

We will continue to pray — although I freely admit that my reserves of Christian charity are at an all-time low. We will also now be more vigilant than ever. For the moment, my vigilance is spiked with a generous portion of rage. I was reminded yesterday of the words of my late friend Andrew Breitbart, which I hope people never forget (LANGUAGE):

Now more than ever: https://t.co/hDg9sCLvSr

— SFK (@stephenkruiser) September 10, 2025

Yes, this feels different.

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