You can feel it in the air. Something has changed. The left has murdered one of our own — not a politician, not a firebrand, not a general — but a man who felt like everyone’s little brother, or dear friend, or wise older brother, or son. He wasn’t a creature of Washington. He wasn’t someone hiding behind a podium or a motorcade. He was a man who decided to do what the left always said they wanted: have a conversation.
He talked to people. He listened. That was his crime.
And they shot him.
And then they laughed about it. They mocked the grief of his wife, they smeared his name, they defaced his memorials, they celebrated the silence of a voice that only ever asked to be heard.
You can hear it and see it. The mainstream press is minimizing this event. They are excusing the way the left built up rhetoric to the point that someone felt it necessary to pick up a gun — or a dozen someones, at this point. They are ignoring the fact that the politicians they have lionized for years have led this charge. They are romanticizing the killer, just as they have done before. And they lie about the right, claiming we are complicit.
And in doing so, the press reveal themselves. These are not the neutral referees of American life. They are partisans who long ago chose their side. They are not guardians of democracy, but guardians of a narrative — a narrative in which those who question, those who converse, those who refuse to bow are cast as villains, while those who silence with bloodshed are dressed up as tragic heroes.
But the air has shifted. You can sense it. Something in the American soul is stirring awake. Mourning has turned to clarity. Grief has fused with resolve. We see what is being done, and we will not allow their story to be the only one told.
The Counter-Narrative Battle Plan
If the left thinks they can write our story for us, they are wrong. If they think they can make murderers into martyrs and silence into virtue, they are wrong. We will tell the truth, and we will tell it in ways they cannot stop.
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Reclaim the Symbols.
Every vigil, every memorial, every name they try to smear becomes a banner. They desecrate, we honor. They mock, we mourn. They destroy, we rebuild. These symbols will outlast their spin. -
Multiply the Witnesses.
One news anchor can cut away. A thousand cell phones cannot. Every time they vandalize, every time they jeer, every time they reveal who they are — record it, share it, and refuse to be silent. A thousand small voices together form a thunderclap. -
Think Local First.
The national press won’t tell the story, but your neighbors will. County papers, local stations, church bulletins, Facebook community pages — these are the roots of truth. Truth spreads fastest from the ground up. -
Discipline Is Power.
They want chaos. They want images of rage to match their script. Deny it to them. Stand firm, disciplined, and unshakable. Let the contrast between their vandalism and your dignity become the story no spin can erase. -
Embed Truth in Culture.
When they block the news, we sing the song, paint the picture, write the story. Culture slips past their censors. A people who tell their own stories cannot be erased. -
Build Parallel Networks.
Every alternative platform, every podcast, every Substack, every book is a breach in their wall. The more we build, the less we depend on them. Parallel institutions are not retreat — they are survival and growth.
This is not a call to vengeance. It is a call to clarity, to discipline, to persistence.
Andrew Breitbart was right: Politics is downstream from culture. And politics is the bloodiest of games. We have been cushioned for a very long time from that fact — that, at root, politics is not about men pretending to be women or which bridges to build. It is about the guillotine, the sword, the bombs that kill without discriminating. We have just been given a reminder of this.
But we don’t have to move to violence. We can change the culture. We can reclaim the stories, the symbols, the music, the rituals, the art, the very air our children breathe. We can create communities so rooted and resilient that the left’s lies crumble on contact. We can become again a people who honor truth more than comfort, and honor each other more than victory.
If they own the headlines, then we will own the songs. If they seize the networks, then we will seize the neighborhoods. If they mock the vigil, then we will make the vigil the seed of something stronger than mockery can ever uproot. And we can take positive action in a dozen small ways to honor Charlie.
Culture is the soil from which politics grows. Poison the soil, and you get poisoned politics. Nourish it, tend it, fill it with stories of honor and sacrifice, and you grow a nation that cannot be ruled by those who wish us ill. That is how we fight. That is how we overcome.
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