The homicidal empathy of the left’s immigration policies



Fairfax, Virginia, has had four homicides so far in 2026. Three out of the four were committed by illegal immigrants.

One, the case of Abdul Jalloh, underlines everything wrong with the approach the left has taken to illegal immigration. Jalloh, who hails from Sierra Leone, illegally entered the United States in 2012 and proceeded to commit dozens of crimes, including assault, rape, and theft.

Eventually, he was caught by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and locked up for roughly two years while awaiting deportation. But in 2020, a judge ruled he could not be deported to his home country. He was free to go, as ICE could not find someone willing to take him.

It is a recognition that Aztec-style sacrifice of the innocent is not necessary to make the rain fall that has empowered nationalists across the West.

Six years later, he killed Stephanie Minter, a mom waiting at a bus stop.

In the aftermath, Minter’s family and Republicans turned their attention to Fairfax County’s District Attorney Steve Descano for having refused to work with ICE and for his extraordinarily light sentences for illegal immigrants, with many highlighting his statement, “If two people commit the same crime, but only one’s punishment includes deportation, that’s a perversion of justice.”

Descano has been called to testify in front of Congress in mid-May to explain his policies. During his hearing, a particular term may be mentioned: suicidal empathy.

Suicidal empathy is a term, popularized by Dr. Gad Saad, commonly used by the Western right as a catch-all for the liberal idea that the importation of potentially dangerous immigrants is a good thing because not doing so would be cruel.

If you do not support mass immigration, legal or otherwise, the thinking goes, you don’t have a heart.

Politicians have been espousing this sentiment for a long time. In 2014, Jeb Bush famously called illegal immigration “an act of love.”

This way of thinking has also dominated Western establishments for some time, even though concerns were obvious. Right from the start of the migration crisis in 2015, new arrivals were causing trouble. Assaults, rapes, and murders that would never have occurred started happening with frightening regularity. Now 11 years later, migrant rape stories have become a part of life there.

And yet, establishments resist any sort of mass deportation because the countries from which they come are “unsafe,” and it would be inhumane to send them there.

Conservatives do themselves and their societies a disservice by portraying this supposed empathy as “suicidal.” It’s not: It’s homicidal. “Suicidal empathy” invokes self-sacrifice. The people are so empathetic that they are willing to risk their lives — the chance that invading migrants may hurt or kill them — or destroy their society.

But this is not really true, as your average pro-migrant liberal is likely not risking his or her life. While migrants rape and kill at startlingly high rates — as just one example, in 2023, foreigners committed 100% of “serious sexual crimes” in Frankfurt, Germany — the odds of any liberal voter being the person who is targeted is relatively low.

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For example, rape in England and Wales was once consistently low. But right when mass migration happened, it skyrocketed, rising over 300%. In 2024, non-German suspects committed nearly 40% of all rapes, over 4,430 — roughly 12 women a day. But because there are millions of English and German women, the odds of any single person being attacked is small.

However, it is going to happen to someone. Those who oppose mass deportations understand this on some level. But they dismiss its importance, as they believe it is the only way for society to function.

Conservatives often misunderstand where this thinking comes from, chalking it up to a secret plot by a combination of George Soros, his son, and other Antifa funders. To be clear, these networks exist. But they are not why your average liberal is OK with mass rape and murder having arrived on their shores.

To understand why, one must look to history. Specifically, the Aztecs.

The Aztecs sacrificed tens of thousands of people, often cutting the hearts out of still-living individuals. This was done to please the gods and to ensure everything continued as necessary. Children, burned alive, were first tortured so that they would cry, as their tears were believed to satiate the needs of the rain god.

Today’s liberal internationalism — the driving force behind allowing mass migration — is based on the same principles. Mass migration allows for UberEATS and Door Dash. It lets you hire cheap labor. The women of "The View" asking conservatives who will clean their toilets are not representatives of the extreme left-wing: They are in lock-step with the ideology that has ruled the West for the past 30 years.

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In the minds of liberal internationalists, the UberEATS driver and the lawn mower have a better life because of their minimum wage (or lower) jobs. The Vietnamese child in the shoe factory is making 10 cents a day — five cents more than if he were working another job!

So it is with those who are sacrificed to migration. Yes, those few who are raped or killed are unfortunates, but they at least get to live in a melting pot after they’ve been sexually assaulted. As Piers Morgan recently argued, he gets to live in a society with tikka masala. (Morgan, of course, has paid security guards and is under no threat.)

It is a recognition that Aztec-style sacrifice of the innocent is not necessary to make the rain fall that has empowered nationalists across the West. Even when they have lost, in places like Poland or Hungary, their successors have mostly kept strict anti-migrant policies intact.

Abdul Jalloh should never have been in the United States, and deportation should have been easy. If Sierra Leone did not want him back, it should not have mattered.

The United States of America is the most powerful nation in the world. If Washington wants to return criminals to their home countries, it has the power to do so.

This homicidal empathy has real victims, and their numbers increase by the day. The right must not let its left-wing opposites get away with viewing themselves as suicidal. They are not risking their own lives. They are arguing for the homicide of others.

Pope Leo XIV recognizes martyrdom of Christians slaughtered by Spanish leftists



Pope Leo XIV has recognized the martyrdom of scores of Spanish Christians murdered by leftists in the 1930s, setting the stage for their possible canonization.

Spain was ravaged in the first half of the 20th century by a bloody civil war that saw a motley crew of Soviet-backed leftists — a coalition strained by infighting between anarchists and communists, to the great chagrin of George Orwell — pitted against an alliance of conservatives, nationalists, and monarchists who were alternatively reinforced by German and Italian forces.

In the years leading up to the war, the Catholic Church and its supporters in Spain became increasingly popular targets for deadly leftist attacks and political persecution by the Republican government.

That oppression paled, however, in comparison to the anti-Catholic campaign executed during the "Red Terror" — the leftist counterinsurgency described by the late Austrian-American polymath Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn as "an orgy of rape, sadism, and unspeakable obscenities."

According to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:

Republican partisans desecrated, burned, and looted churches and shrines all across Spain. Relics and statues were paraded through the streets in mock celebrations; the bodies of saints and clergy were dug up and abused. Priests and religious were hunted and massacred: around 6,800 Catholic clergy, including 13 bishops, were tortured and executed by left-wing forces. Nor were these killings a reaction to clerical abuses. According to historian José Sanchez, "Priests of all types were killed: strict, loose, moral, immoral, libertines and ascetics,” including "some priests who were social activists and had actively opposed the uprisings." Indeed, murder of the local priest became de rigueur for loyal partisans: "Cassock we see, cassock we kill."

On Monday, Pope Leo authorized the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to recognize the martyrdom of Brother Estanislao Ortega García and 48 of his companions from the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel along with diocesan priest Emanuele Berenguer Clusella, who were "killed between the months of July and November 1936 in hatred of the faith, in various parts of Catalonia, Spain, in the context of the same persecution."

Vatican News noted that the recognition of the clerics' martyrdom "marks a step forward in the respective causes for canonization."

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InfoVaticana reported that the Archdiocese of Barcelona initially got the ball rolling on these martyrs' beatification decades ago, collecting testimonies and documentation regarding the circumstances of their deaths.

'They are models of consistency with the truth they professed.'

This is hardly the first time that Pope Leo or his predecessors have recognized the heroic faith of Christians murdered by Spanish leftists in the 1930s.

Last year, for instance, Pope Leo recognized as martyrs 109 diocesan priests, one religious sister, and 14 lay Catholics killed during the conflict along with 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

In 2013, Pope Leo's predecessor, Pope Francis, enraged leftists by announcing the beatification of over 520 martyrs, mainly clergymen, killed for their faith during the Spanish Civil War. This beatification further advanced the cause of their potential recognition by the Catholic Church as saints.

The process for canonization, or official recognition of sainthood, is as follows: First, a candidate who "lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life" is recognized by the pope as "venerable." The second stage is beatification, which requires a finding of "one miracle acquired through the candidate's intercession." Finally, for canonization, a second miracle is required.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops notes on its website that "all Christians are called to be saints. Saints are persons in heaven (officially canonized or not), who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of imitation."

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI beatified 498 martyrs "who poured out their blood for the faith during the religious persecution in Spain in 1934, 1936 and 1937" and whose ages ranged from 16 to 78.

In 2001, Pope John Paul II beatified 233 martyrs killed during the Spanish Civil War, including Maria Teresa Ferragud, an 83-year-old woman who was savagely murdered on the feast of Christ the King in 1936 along with her four daughters, all of whom were nuns.

"The Church wishes to recognize these men and women as examples of courage and constancy in faith, helped by God’s grace," Pope John Paul II, who was canonized in 2014, said at the time. "For us they are models of consistency with the truth they professed, while at the same time they honor the noble Spanish people and the Church."

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‘The threats are real’: Glenn Beck issues urgent call for courage as violence against conservatives escalates



Death threats and political violence against conservatives are no longer rare incidents — they have become a dangerous daily reality, creating a climate of fear designed to silence dissent.

On April 14, Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, announced that she was backing out at the last minute from a TPUSA event in Athens, Georgia, where she was scheduled to interview JD Vance, due to “very serious threats” directed at her.

Just a few days before that, TPUSA Frontlines reporter Savanah Hernandez was brutally attacked by a violent anti-ICE mob in Minnesota while she was simply trying to video a protest.

“She was going to be on the show today, and I just got this note from her,” Glenn Beck says through tears. “‘Glenn, you know I never would turn you down, but I’m struggling with some dizziness and head pain today and had to end up canceling all of my appearances for the day.’”

Glenn is overwhelmed by the brutality he’s witnessing. On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” he delivers an urgent message about the terrifying rise of political violence in America.

“My first death threat happened in 2007. ... I was on a tour for ‘The Christmas Sweater,’ and we had serious death threats,” he recalls. “My tour bus was run off the road.”

Right now, Glenn contends, America is in “a time that is thick with credible threats.”

“And that’s happening because the powers that you name — the liars, the corrupt, the enemies of the Bill of Rights, and the Western inheritants — have marked you,” he warns. “They want you silent. They want you gone for a reason.”

While it’s tempting to shrink away from these threats out of the instinct of self-preservation, he pleads with his audience to resist them.

“You were born for times such as this,” Glenn says through tears.

“You think [God] is hunting for a heart that’s never trembled?” he asks. “It’s not true. He’s not. Every hero you knew felt the same terror that you feel now ... even Christ.”

“He didn’t cease to be afraid in order to obey. He obeyed while and in spite of him being afraid,” Glenn continues. “That’s the only courage that has ever changed the world.”

He points to German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who boldly “[stood] against the Nazi machine” on the principle that “silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”

“Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. [Bonhoeffer] didn’t escape the noose by being quiet. He escaped the greater death: the death of the soul that refuses to live by truth,” Glenn says.

He then quotes Soviet army officer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was sent to the gulags for eight years for criticizing Stalin: “Live not by lies.”

Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other brave souls have iterated similar sentiments in the face of unspeakable fear.

Glenn points out that the cup these courageous men bore is not some relic from days past. It has been passed to us.

“The threats are real. The fear is honest. But the calling is louder,” he encourages.

To hear more of Glenn’s moving monologue, watch the video above.

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The FBI should get a warrant before reading your messages



Conservatives have spent decades fighting government overreach. We have opposed IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, regulatory power-grabs, and agencies that treat the Bill of Rights as a suggestion. So explain this: Why are Republican leaders in Congress lining up to renew a surveillance law that lets the FBI read Americans' private communications without asking a judge? Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires on April 30. Intelligence agencies want an 18-month clean extension — no changes, no reforms, no warrant requirement. The intelligence community has joined former Biden administration officials in making the rounds on Capitol Hill, pressing members of Congress to fall in line.

Some of us are standing up for the Fourth Amendment by demanding, at the very least, fair votes on real civil liberties protections. Some are not, demanding that we shut up and not only reauthorize this powerful spying power, but also deny Americans a chance to see how their representatives in Congress vote on an issue that enjoys overwhelming, bipartisan support from their constituents.

Conservatives who believe January 6 defendants were treated unjustly by a politicized Department of Justice should be the first to demand a warrant requirement — because Section 702 is one of the laws that was wrongly used to go after those Americans.

Here's what a "clean" reauthorization actually means. The government collects the communications of foreign targets overseas — emails, texts, calls. That part is unobjectionable. Foreigners have no Fourth Amendment rights. The problem is what happens next. When those foreign targets communicate with Americans, those American messages get swept into the database too — hundreds of millions of them. And then the FBI can search through those communications using your name or email address — with no warrant, no judge, and no probable cause. This is the "backdoor search." This is not a hypothetical concern. In a single reporting period, the government conducted 278,000 searches that violated the rules. From 2018 to 2024, federal law required a warrant before the FBI could conduct backdoor searches in certain criminal cases. The bureau ran dozens of qualifying searches during that window. It obtained the required court order zero times.

Conservatives who believe January 6 defendants were treated unjustly by a politicized Department of Justice should be the first to demand a warrant requirement — because Section 702 is one of the laws that was wrongly used to go after those Americans.

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Congress responded in 2024 by passing minor reforms that mostly codified then-current practice — RISAA — which is to say Congress put into law the same rules that had already led to significant misuse. The FBI's response was to quietly use a separate querying tool that bypassed those requirements. By March 2026, the FISA Court issued a classified opinion that found the issue spanned the entire intelligence community. And it isn’t just the FBI. We still don’t know whether the NSA analyst who searched Section 702 data for information about online dating matches kept his security clearance or job.

The fix is straightforward. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) has introduced the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, while Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), and a bipartisan coalition have introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act, both of which require a warrant before the FBI can access an American's private communications collected under Section 702. Conservative members blocked the clean reauthorization not to make FISA reauthorization impossible, but to create a path forward for a version that does not unjustly violate Americans’ privacy.

The argument that we must choose between national security and the warrant requirement is false. Warrants do not prevent surveillance. They require the government to convince a judge that the surveillance is justified, as the Constitution requires. Government agencies that cannot meet that standard are fishing — for you.

'There is no mama': Two homosexuals taunt surrogate baby crying for his mother: VIDEO



The horror of the surrogacy trend reared its head again this week.

An Instagram video posted by gay musician Shane McAnally has triggered the ire of many conservatives and viewers alike.

'The most horrifying video I've ever seen in my life.'

Posted earlier this week, the video shows a man, presumably either McAnally or his "husband," Michael Baum, holding their adopted third child, Texson, whom they recently brought into the family after taking him from his mother after she gave birth.

"Who do you want, Dada or Pop?" the man asks the baby repeatedly over the course of the video.

The baby can be heard making noises that sound remarkably like "mama" and "mom" throughout the video.

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The man holding the baby feigns shock when the infant cries out for his mother, saying, "No way, Jose," to the baby.

The baby, who according to People was born in late October 2025 and immediately turned over to the homosexual couple, begins to cry at this point in the video, visibly upset.

The man in the video and the man holding the camera both begin to laugh at the baby while he cries harder and harder for his "mama."

"There is no mama. I'm so sorry. You have Dada and Pop," the man in the video says.

"No mama," he repeats as the baby cries.

The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles described this video as "the most horrifying video I've ever seen in my life."

Instagram users seemed to have experienced the same revulsion Knowles did.

"This is why it’s important to remember that it’s a child’s right to have parents- and not a[n] adult’s right to have children," one user said.

Another said, "That's not funny. Someone please save this baby :(."

"People go to therapy for the trauma that’s caused when they grow up with an absent mother. Why are adults trying to get children to meet their needs when it was always supposed to be the other way around?" a third commenter added to the post.

McAnally has repeatedly mocked his child as the "homophobic baby" in other posts on his page.

For example, a video posted in December shows a 6-week-old Texson smiling as the man holding the camera tells him about his brother, sister, and two puppies. He then says, "And two dads." Texson stops smiling and appears to furrow his brow at this moment.

According to People, McAnally and Baum were "married' in 2012. They have another son and a daughter, named Dash and Dylan, respectively.

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'God shall not be mocked'

Support for Israel is dropping quickly among young Republicans, new poll shows



New polling from Pew Research shows a massive contrast in opinions about Israel between younger Republicans and their older allies.

The polling, conducted in late March, additionally showed not only the typical divide between conservatives and liberals with regard to support of Israel, but also a growing, unfavorable view of Israel and President Donald Trump's ability to handle relations with Israeli leaders.

'Across all US adults, 60% have an unfavorable view of Israel.'

While the majority of Republicans still have a favorable view of Israel, younger party members are currently showing the lowest level of support of any demographic.

For Republicans over 50, just 24% have a "very/somewhat unfavorable" opinion of Israel. That number is 57% for the 18-49 age group, up seven points in just one year, and showing a glaring 33-point difference within the party.

Democrats are more unified about their dislike of Israel. Just four points separate the two age groups, averaging out to an 80% negative view of the country overall.

Across all U.S. adults, 60% have an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 53% in 2025, Pew Research reported.

When it comes to confidence in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the sentiment among young Republicans remains the same. When asked if they have confidence in Netanyahu to "do the right thing regarding world affairs," just 25% of Republicans 18-49 have some or a lot of confidence, while 58% said they have "not too much" or none at all.

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Republicans over 50 are confident in Netanyahu by a net of 66%, with just 30% having a net negative level of confidence in him. This demographic has the most confidence in Prime Minister Netanyahu.

At the same time, more than 75% of Democrats have little or no faith in the Israeli leader's ability to do the right thing.

Moreover, according to the poll, Republicans have the biggest contrast in opinions when it comes to the importance of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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In terms of those who said the conflict between Israel and Hamas is important to them personally, Republicans over 50 years old found it important most often at a rate of 69%. That was 12 points more than the second-highest group, which was Democrats over 50 years old.

Republicans ages 18-49, however, were the demographic most likely to say the conflict was not personally important to them at 41%, seven points higher than Democrats of the same age.

In the end, Republicans were far more likely than Democrats to have confidence in President Trump's handling of the United States' relations with Israel, with nearly three-quarters either somewhat or very confident in him.

More than 80% of Democrats polled said they were not too confident or not at all confident in Trump's handling of the situation.

The survey was conducted March 23-29 and involved 3,507 U.S. adults.

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WATCH: Liberals are completely losing their minds



BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales didn’t previously have high hopes for liberals like Don Lemon, Nancy Pelosi, or Leslie Jones — but recent comments the three have made have set her expectations even lower.

“The other thing that the internet is really good for are videos of liberal losers,” Gonzales says before playing a clip of Lemon “hinting at a potential run for president.”

“I think I could be president of the United States,” Lemon said. “I could definitely run this country better than Donald Trump.”

“As an independent, though, there would be a hard time for me to run for anything because, you know, the way the system is set up, I’d have to choose a side. And so, you know, I probably would have to become a Democrat,” Lemon concluded.


Gonzales is amused.

“He would have to become a Democrat. That is hilarious. ... This criminal, whose only accomplishment is terrorizing churchgoers, thinks for one second that he could be president,” she says.

And Pelosi’s comments weren’t much better.

“We always have concerns, but with this president and these Republicans who have no commitment to the rule of law and doing things the appropriate way, we’re ready. We have to be on guard as to what they may try to do to the technology,” Pelosi said in an interview on MS NOW.

“They may try to creep into the technology and create a false count,” she added.

“Oh, interesting, because back in my day, if you even mentioned that voting machines could be hacked, you would be sued into oblivion. So, it’s a very interesting turn of events to hear Nancy Pelosi admit that that was possible,” Gonzales comments, before turning her attention to former SNL cast member Leslie Jones.

“She, in all her brilliance, decided that marriage is slavery,” she says, playing a clip of Jones on Ziwe’s podcast.

“I think marriage is legalized slavery,” Jones stated.

“If he’s expecting you to be a trad wife, he might as well pull out a whip and a chain,” she continued.

Jones went on to advise the young audience not to get married.

“Obviously, trad wives, the trade-off is that their husbands are out working, and they get to stay home. It’s actually a total blessing. Women love that if they are in a position where they are able to do that,” Gonzales comments.

“But I’m not even convinced that Leslie Jones is a woman after hearing her speak. So, maybe that’s why she doesn’t quite get it,” she adds.

Why nationwide No Kings protests literally don't matter: ‘Extremely bleak for them’



No Kings protests have been popping up all over the country in protest of President Trump and the United States’ involvement in the Iran war, and of course, the mainstream media has covered these protesters as if they’re a real force to be reckoned with.

However, BlazeTV host John Doyle attended one of the protests in Dallas and explains that the reality on the ground tells a much different story.

“If you Google it, ‘No Kings 2026,’ there are all of these leftist outlets — be those local, national, even on CNN, MSNBC, all the usual suspects — trying to just put all of this out there, put the imagery out there, to let people know that this is definitely a thing that is very real and very threatening and certainly happening,” Doyle says on “The John Doyle Show.”


“The people who actually mobilize and show up to these Democrat quote-unquote ‘protests,’ these are the revolutionary class. This is an inherently sort of kinetic group of people, which is to say a people who are motivated almost chiefly by resentment against just normal American patriots,” he continues.

Doyle explains that these protesters also “always need to be out on the streets causing problems, feeling as though they are pushing back against some force.”

“It is this kind of 'Handmaid’s Tale' LARP for them. They really do enjoy the interaction with law enforcement, feeling as though they’re being freaking persecuted,” he says.

And the visuals Doyle caught at the protest in Dallas only prove his point.

“It’s extremely, extremely bleak for them,” he says, before showing a picture of one of the protesters.

“It was this extremely obese creature, and it was occupying a mobility scooter, like how you see at Walmart. And there was a sign mounted on the mobility scooter … that said ‘#FreakingNoKings,’” Doyle recalls.

“And then you have old people and then foreign people and then foreign old people, and everybody’s dying. It’s like, what? I’m not intimidated. I’m not even having fun. I just feel bad. I used to go in there and felt like I was in a lion’s den, you know? Do a little sparring with the people who want me killed,” he continues.

“I had a smile on my face, a pep in my step. You’ve all seen it. I just felt bad,” he says.

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‘The level of mistrust runs too deep’: Auron MacIntyre’s warning to establishment conservatives



A growing identity crisis is shaking the conservative movement, as longtime tensions between grassroots audiences and establishment voices boil over in our increasingly digital age.

According to BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre, the chaos is driven by years of mistrust built first between the mainstream media and their own audiences, and now between conservative institutions and their audiences.

“To say that the conservative movement has come off the rails would comically understate the damage,” MacIntyre begins.

“Plenty of commentators blame podcasts for this new disorder, and the new ecosystem gives them no shortage of bad behavior to cite. But that diagnosis misses the deeper cause,” he says, pointing out that the “deeper cause” is, conservatives are now replicating the legacy media’s attitude toward their listeners.


“Establishment conservatives treated their audience the same way the legacy press did: as a resource to be managed, manipulated, and occasionally milked. A movement that spent decades being lied to will not be stitched back together by scolding the people who finally stopped listening,” MacIntyre says.

“Democrats screamed about disinformation, warned about the dangers of free speech, and then launched research projects designed to replicate what they claimed to hate. The right cheered the upheaval. Establishment conservatives, however, never fully grasped what the shift meant for them,” he continues.

“Trump didn’t rise only as a battering ram against progressive media. He rose as a middle finger to conservative establishment media as well. That plan worked and then kept working in ways that many people didn’t anticipate,” he adds.

Now, MacIntyre explains, “conservative gatekeepers” are mimicking the “panicked reflexes the left showed” as they accuse others of “dangerous rhetoric,” call for “deplatforming,” and ask for “responsible voices to regain control.”

“These instincts never belong to one ideology. They belong to institutions that sense their monopoly slipping away,” he says.

Now, MacIntyre is warning conservatives that they “can’t lecture podcast audiences about responsible broadcasting after years of manipulating their own viewers.”

“The level of mistrust runs too deep. Censorship will fail too. Shaming and platform policing didn’t rebuild credibility for Democrats, and it’s not going to rebuild credibility for Republicans, either,” he adds.

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