Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson recently commented on the murder of Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, while looking at the bigger picture.
Hanson suggests that the killing of Kirk is a turning point for Western Civilization. He talks about the resolve many people feel right now to reject anti-Americanism in our culture and our politics.
As usual, all of Hanson’s commentary is calm, well thought out and constructive.
Partial transcript via the Daily Signal:
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. And what is the shrug, basically? It’s saying we’re tolerant of people with alternate lifestyles. But whether we like it or not, the nuclear two-parent family, for 2,500 years, has ensured the survival of Western civilization. It gives us two to three to four children, and we can reproduce the species.
We’re tolerant of Islam and Buddhism, Hinduism. We have a multiracial, multicultural population. But whether we like it or not, the foundations of the United States are Judeo-Christian, as they are of Western civilization in general. We have no apologies for that. Sermon on the Mount is a unique document.
We also are tired of what I call boutique anti-Americanism. We see Rep. Ilhan Omar suggesting that our elected government is worse than the dictatorship in Somalia; or we see Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling President Donald Trump a fascist, as she has in the past; or we see Rep. Rashida Tlaib just demonizing and damning the United States, even though her parents fled the Middle East to come here. And we’re tired of it.
Here’s the short version of the video:
.@VDHanson: The Right Isn’t Getting Violent—Just Saying ‘Enough.’
This is a turning point in American politics.
The Right has lost all tolerance for the Left following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, particularly due to the Left’s immediate and unacceptable reaction to his… pic.twitter.com/lxdlpz5j9u
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) September 19, 2025
You can watch the longer version if you like: