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The Numbers Don't Lie: Inside America's Real Extremist Crisis

On September 10, 2025 Charlie Kirk, the polarizing conservative activist, lay bleeding on the campus of Utah Valley University. Within hours, the predictable machinery of American political theater would whir to life, transforming tragedy into talking points and a grieving nation into warring tribes.

But to understand how America reached this moment—where truth bends to power and data surrenders to narrative—you must look at the ecosystem, one where Charlie swam, that made it possible. It has been happening since January 6th 2020 - the dangerous lies. But it came to life this past January. Now it is not the GOP nor Trump who are responsible for Kirk’s death, but was their lucky break.

We’ve been skating close to the window of authoritarianism for a while, but it’s different now that Charlie died. The flags at half mast. The VP pod cast. It’s more than a stage now.

The playbook is old, worn and well read. Ignore science. Lionize the unlionizable. Ignore poverty. Silence voices. And of co…