Josh Williams
When Charlie Kirk was murdered, it did not mean the beginning of political violence in America, but Culmination of movement It started decades ago. The roots of this crisis date back to the classes of our universities, in which the speech has been re -defined, dissatisfied demonized, and violence reformulated as justice.
At the beginning of 2000, the professors began to teach it “Microagression” They were not just rude or offensive, they were violence. It was much more than semantics; This transformed how the generation of students understood speech. If the words were violence, violent reactions to speech could be rationalized as self -defense.
In the mid -2010. This ideology left the lecture halls and spread over camps. The hospitable speakers were peeled, shouted and physically attacked. Students described opposite ideas as “harmful”. The implication was clear: disagreement with leftist ideas is pressure and pressure justifies retaliation.
The elections of Donald Trump in 2016 were acceleration, causing that these ideas bleeding in national policy. Trump was not simply seen as a president to oppose; They argued that he was an illegal fascist who could be based. His voters were not fellow; They were a regrettable racist. When your political opponent is fascist or racist, attacking them is not only acceptable, it is a moral crusade.
At the beginning of 2020, the definition of the word “threat” expanded entertaining. Everyone who challenges a progressive cultural dogma, especially in the case of sex, has become a fair game. Incorrect was called violence. Questioning medical procedures for minors was violence. With the exception of biological men from the sport of women was violence. Thanks to this distorted logic, physical aggression has become a “self -defense.” That is why athletes from College, such as Riley Gaines, were Mobbed, and parents at the meetings of the school board were marked with “national terrorists”.
In 2024, escalation became fatal. At a rally in Pennsylvania, the would -be killers grazed Trump’s head, killing one of his supporters. Only a few months later another revolverist was caught the persecution of Trump on his golf field in Florida with a rifle. Twice a year, the Republican candidate and former President of the United States were almost murdered. Political violence was no longer theoretical.
On September 10, 2025, this logic ended with the murder of Charlie Kirk, on stage before thousands of newborn people. His only crime was to speak his mind. This was not an isolated act. It was a predictable result of a 25-year campaign to redefine words as violence, normalize the riots as resistance and justifying the murder as a policy by other means.
Echo Chambers media justified leftist violence as “mainly peaceful protests”, while increasing every conservative error as a national accident. Democratic politicians summed up flames; President Joe Biden announced Trump and Magician Republicans “Threats to democracy”. Millions of Americans were painted not as neighbors, but as existential enemies. This rhetoric gave the moral permit to extremists to eliminate their political opponents.
If political violence was incubated in lecture halls, then medicine I have to start with him also. This means the solution to campus departments, which exist only to enforce ideological compliance. We do not need several layers of humanities and social science courses to train world -class engineer. We do not need sex research to create another generation of leaders. American universities and universities must return to education and strengthening scientists, builders and innovators who supply our future, free from political lacquer tests.
It also means an enhance in supervision over accreditation agencies that forced universities and universities to embed leftist ideology in study programs. Accreditation must relate to academic perfection, not political compliance.
America cannot survive if the misunderstanding is treated as violence and violence is treated as a politician. If we want to break this cycle, we must regain our universities, restore free investigation and deprive the bureaucrats that have corrupt higher education. Only then can we rebuild a culture in which the debate, not bloodshed, determines our future.
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The representative of the state Josh Williams represents the 44th district in the legislative state of the Ohio state. He applied for the US Congress in the 9th Ohio Congress District. Daily Signal publishes various perspectives. Nothing can be interpreted here as representing the official views of the daily signal.
Photo “Students protesting” by Corey Seeman CCNCSA2.0.
