At the time of writing, Charlie Kirk’s murderer has just been identified by the FBI. According to the Governor of Utah, inscriptions on his bullet casings read “hey fascist, catch!” and “Bella Ciao!” – the latter of which being a reference to an Italian anti-fascist song. He appears to have been an “antifascist”.
In response to this act of left-wing terrorism, the world just witnessed essentially a mass celebration by leftists of his assassination. Left-leaning mainstream media across the world took a partisan tone of justification towards it. Even though Charlie Kirk was a conservative who expressed only moderate pro-white sentiments, to leftists he was indistinguishable from a Nazi and therefore deserved to be executed in cold blood in front of his wife, children and the world.
The key takeaway from this, and many other high profile recent acts of violence against Whites and people associated with the political right, is that politics is war by other means.
For a long time many have deluded themselves into thinking that politics is just a big discussion where we debate ideas in the public square. This is false, it is an existential struggle to secure our way of life against threats and adversaries.
A politics of discussion is an illusion that prosperous and homogeneous Western liberal democracies were able to briefly manufacture in bygone decades, but the historically anomalous conditions that enabled it have been irreversibly undermined.
We are at war, at war with antiwhite leftists, non-white invaders, and Zionist forces trying to retain their parasitic and subversive grip upon our political process. There is no “discussion” to be had with them, there is only a struggle for power, a struggle that you have no choice but to partake in whether you like it or not.
The reason why Fascism and National Socialism emerged and spread like wildfire across Europe in the 1920s and 30s was not because the populations of Europe suddenly became “prejudiced” or “hateful” or some other cartoonish absurdity. It was because the radical left became increasingly organised and violent, and attempts by conservatives to simply “win the argument” against them were too pitiful and weak of a response.
So the people turned to the fighters of the radical right and their illiberal ideology to protect them. And as this violence escalates, they will turn to them again.
Charlie Kirk was literally shot in the act of attempting a public “debate” – don’t let the significance of this be lost on you. He was shot underneath his catchphrase, “prove me wrong”.
A suit and tie, friendly demeanour, establishment connections and openness to discussion with your political adversaries will not save you. The supposed constitutional safeguards of the liberal democratic state will not protect you. Conservatives have for decades attempted to play “fair” with their political opponents, to engage them in discussion, to extend to them values of free speech, tolerance, and so on. And they’re getting shot in front of their wife and children for it.
Liberal democracy doesn’t work when your political adversaries refuse to compete in good faith. The very premise of liberal democracy is a gentleman’s agreement between opposing ideological factions to peacefully compete for power according to constitutional rules which guarantee equal rights to political participation. The political left have completely trashed this gentleman’s agreement, it’s time for the right to stop submitting to this one way street.
The only adequate response to militant adversaries is a militancy of our own. We can no longer tolerate sharing our countries and political process with genocidal enemies who have made it clear they want us dead. The only discussion left to be had is one with our own side – a discussion about how we need to radicalise, organise, take power and use the state to crush our enemies decisively to secure a future for our people.
Responding to a violent, tyrannical and genocidal left with conservatism is not taking the moral high ground, it is cowardice. The right must mutate. If leftists will respond to losing arguments with tyrannical hate speech laws and murderous violence, it’s time for the right to stop responding to leftism with arguments, but with a determination to seize the state back off them in order to eradicate leftism from social and political life.
Joel Davis can be found on Telegram. He was banned from X earlier this year without explanation.
