The temperature in this country hasn’t dropped in the past three weeks.
If anything, the air is thicker now — heavy with fear, anger, and a creeping sense that the guardrails are gone.
Three weeks after the murder of a white supremacist podcaster in Utah, the political violence that followed has not ebbed. Instead, it has metastasized — threats against journalists, influencers, ordinary citizens who dare to dissent.
What we’re seeing is not a series of isolated attacks, but the pattern of a democracy unraveling.
Yesterday, Trump and Pete Hegseth took the stage before 800 of the nation’s top military brass.
The silence that met them was deafening. No applause, no endorsement — just unease.
But silence doesn’t deter this White House. Hegseth, manic and spiraling by his own aides’ accounts, railed against beards, “woke culture,” and DEI initiatives as if he were fighting phantoms. He even suggested easing punishment for sexual assault in the military, calling it an “earnest mistake.” Imagi…
