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The Normies Just Woke Up—and the Left Should Be Worried

You know what’s wild? There’s a storm brewing out there, and a whole chunk of people—the progressive crowd—are completely clueless about it. They’ve got no idea how much the past week has shaken up millions of regular Americans.

And I’m not talking about chronically online Americans addicted to social media rage. No, I’m talking about regular, normal suburban folks, city folks, small-town folks—you know, busy folks who don’t normally get caught up in hot takes on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

These are the normies, the moderates, the backbone of this country—the folks who have too much work to do to waste time hiding behind a keyboard pretending they’re important. These people actually are important. And right now, they’re livid.

This is outpouring of support for Charlie Kirk in Beverly Hills, California—you heard me right, BEVERLY HILLS. In the middle of the lion’s den, people are waking up.

Millions of these folks saw a young woman—someone who could’ve been their daughter—stabbed in the neck by a guy who’d been sprung from jail over a dozen times. That image hit them hard. Two days later, they watched a video of a conservative speaker, just a young guy talking to college kids, get shot dead in front of a crowd of 3,000.

Some knew his name; most didn’t. But they all felt the weight of it, grieving for a family they’d never met. Then, right after, they opened their social media accounts and saw people they know—teachers, nurses, the guy at the grocery store, the guy down the street—literally cheering that murder like it was a touchdown. Not just excusing it, but celebrating it, some actually dancing and singing about it.

And even amid this kind of tragedy, the intolerant left is keeping up the exact same rhetoric. Here’s Oxford Union’s president calling conservatism a “cancer” that needs to be removed by “any means necessary.”

The left can continue to try to act like this is just a sentiment among the fringe, but the evidence is stacking up against them—all of them. Because if you are silent, if you don’t call out this filth, you are not just part of the problem—you are the problem.

And here’s what it’s doing. Those regular Americans? They’re not just sitting there anymore. They’ve realized politics isn’t some far-off game—it’s about their lives, their kids, their safety. After seeing a young woman bleed out on a train and a father take a bullet to the throat, they’re done being passive.

They’re not just leaning right—they’re charging that way, full speed. Because they’re pinning the blame on the progressive crowd, the ones celebrating the assassination in the end zone.

Only a rare few Democrats are seeing what’s happening. Senator John Fetterman is one of them. He sees that his party has lost the argument—his words, and mine too for the past week.

When they see that stabbing, they don’t just see one unhinged criminal. They see every lecture from some university bureaucrat or HR trainer about “reimagining” justice, about letting violent offenders walk free for the sake of fairness. They think about their buddy who’s a cop, the one who quit because he was sick of being called a bigot, or the one who grumbles about watching criminals skate because some activist DA won’t file charges. They’re starting to see the progressive line on crime for what it is: a dangerous gamble with their safety.

When they see Charlie’s blood spill, they don’t just see one tragedy. They see every radical they’ve ever met who slaps the “fascist” label on anyone who doesn’t vote their way, who tosses around “jokes” about smashing conservatives. They’re finally starting to wonder if those ideas could come for them next—for their beliefs, their faith, or even their skin color. It’s got them rattled.

The race baiting has to stop—but it won’t. Here’s Don Lemon showing exactly why he was booted off one of the far-left echo chamber networks, CNN, trying to corner a black woman into smearing Charlie—but she just won’t do it. Watch..

Don is peddling the same garbage that got Charlie killed, claiming that he’s anti-black or anti-women, when Charlie very clearly championed the well-being of every American—regardless of race or gender or political affiliation.

When Americans scroll through their feeds and see their neighbors—actual people they know—cheering a murder, they’re sickened. They’re starting to talk about good versus evil, about something darker than politics. Whether they’re at church every Sunday or just show up for Christmas, they know no normal person celebrates a life being snuffed out. And they’re wondering why the progressive crowd hasn’t reined in their own.

This is what they actually want to see—here’s Oregon’s head football coach getting real.

But instead, what’s the response been on the left? Deflection. Excuses. Weak sauce. And of course, some strange finger-pointing at President Trump—another guy they tried to kill. When a young woman dies, it’s cherry-picked stats about “lower crime rates” that don’t match what people see in their cities, where victims don’t even bother calling the cops because nothing gets done. When a man is gunned down, it’s tired whataboutisms—January 6th, some senator’s dumb tweet, or a random assault that doesn’t compare.

Gun laws? Doesn’t explain a knife attack or killing with the most popular hunting rifle in America. And when their own people cheer the bloodshed, it’s “just a few bad apples” or whining about cancel culture when folks demand accountability for glorifying murder. It’s flimsy, it’s obvious, and regular people aren’t buying it. Again, they’ve lost the argument.

DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard made the point so clearly during remarks to honor Charlie’s legacy. Charlie had the right idea—he knew how to win the battle—and it’s the exact opposite of what the left is doing.

The left might not believe it, but the truth is this: the progressive crowd’s blind spot just cost them millions of regular Americans—millions of voters that are never coming back. Those folks are now wide awake, furious, and ready to fight for a world where this kind of violence doesn’t happen again. If the progressives want any chance of staying relevant, they’d better start calling out their own extremists and showing they understand what’s at stake. Because the normies are done, and they’re not looking back unless something changes—fast.