Conservative scholar Victor Davis Hanson has put out a new video addressing the murder of Charlie Kirk, which also looks at the big picture, a Hanson specialty.
He suggests that Kirk’s assassination represents a turning point for Western Civilization, citing the feelings of many that the world has changed and that people have reached their limit with the radical left.
Partial transcript via the Daily Signal:
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Something is happening in the United States and, I think, worldwide too. It’s almost as if there were fuel and the death of Charlie Kirk ignited it.It’s not a George Floyd movement at all, or moment. We’ve talked about that. It’s very different. It’s building up frustration. It’s not a top-down DEI mandate. It’s a grassroots kind of collective shrug throughout Western civilization. And I guess it could be characterized as enough is enough.We’re witnessing large-scale demonstrations in Ireland, Great Britain. The government of France has fallen, and French President Emmanuel Macron will have to appoint a new prime minister. There is unrest in the Netherlands.We used to think, during the Cold War, that Eastern Europe was supposedly backward, politically, under the Soviet sway, economically stagnant. But since the Cold War, and especially lately, the Eastern Europeans seem the most sensible of all Westerners. They believe in tradition. They believe in borders. They believe in legal-only immigration. They believe in fossil fuel development. And they have strong militaries because they’ve experienced Soviet aggression and German aggression in the past. And yet, they also are having a reinforcing moment.What is this moment? We’re seeing it in the United States with thousands of people commemorating the death of Charlie Kirk. There’s no tolerance for the usual left-wing, socialist craziness, the abhorrent, violent smears of conservatives who’ve died. And you don’t see major bureaucrats, or generals, or Hollywood figures—increasingly, they’re not coming out and rejoicing because they feel that they’re going to get a big pushback.This is not violent. It’s just a collective shrug.
Watch the whole thing below:
It definitely feels as though something has shifted. Even typically non-political people seem to have woken up to the reality of the world we live in and everyone but the radical left seems determined to change things. We don’t have to live this way.
Featured image via YouTube.
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