After Charlie Kirk, America is awash in a sea of anger

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I’m writing as we speak about anger.

And I’m ticked off about it.

I truly assume it’s America’s largest drawback proper now. Half the nation hates the opposite half of the nation. And vice versa.

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There are on-line mobs able to pounce on any accessible goal. That might be loathsome human beings, just like the remorseless madman who killed Charlie Kirk .

Or it might be a deranged particular person at a decrease degree, just like the crazed, screaming girl who stole a Phillies residence run ball from a 10-year-old child. Or the person who introduced his assistant and facet squeeze to a Coldplay live performance and was outed by the Jumbotron — which turned extra critical when each have been fired.

Can a rustic face up to a lot rage?

Individuals maintain candles and sing throughout a memorial and prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Heart for the Performing Arts, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Ardour is sweet. Railing at folks you don’t know, not a lot.

The irony is that the overwhelming majority of those folks wouldn’t say such issues to you on the road. Then they’d need to take care of your response.

However in the dead of night expanse of social media , they will spew every kind of rubbish, curse like sailors — particularly in the event that they’re hiding behind display screen names. That must be punishable by the demise penalty — okay, perhaps I’m getting too labored up right here.

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Some public figures harness anger as a political device. In personal, Donald Trump might be humorous and charming. However his fixed battles–with the media, regulation corporations, universities, large cities, Democrats, judges, prosecutors, critics, adversaries, allies world wide–are fueled by his sense of grievance. Simply learn his Fact Social web page.

I first started masking Trump in New York within the Eighties, and he was the identical method. He would decide fights with the likes of Leona Helmsley, figuring out it made good copy.

However I may additionally argue that with out the contempt he has for folks and establishments who stand in his method, the president wouldn’t be pushed to perform all that he has previously eight months.

Elon Musk clearly has the identical anger-management situation, having declared "the left" to be "the social gathering of homicide."

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel testifies earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee within the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on September 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Patel is going through questions from lawmakers for the second straight day following a contentious listening to earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee the place he was criticized for his dealing with of investigations into the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk and the case associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)

So do such Democrats as Adam Schiff, who relentlessly hammered Kash Patel at a listening to this week, "You need the American folks to imagine that? Do you assume they’re silly?" And so does the FBI director , "You're the largest fraud to ever sit in the US Senate, you're a shame to this establishment, and an utter coward!"

However everyone knows the sport. In our echo-chamber world, you need to be harsher and angrier than the final particular person to interrupt by the static and have your sound chunk featured on cable or X or podcasts. So these establishments reward outrage, fake or in any other case.

Silicon Valley giants make their cash from engagement, and nothing fosters engagement like pissed-off folks.

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The previous couple of Democratic presidents haven’t been purveyors of anger. (placing apart what they’re like behind closed doorways). Joe Biden was so secluded we barely heard from him–we now know why–and was a backslapper and conciliator. Barack Obama was all in regards to the audacity of hope. Invoice Clinton ran as a southern average towards the "brain-dead" politics of each events.

It's a must to return to LBJ to discover a Democrat who relished beating the crap out of others, based mostly on his years of threats and arm-twisting as Senate majority chief. "Ah obtained Hubert’s pecker in my pocket," he would say, and different variations on that quote.

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He additionally mentioned this about disloyal lawmakers: "I would like him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at excessive midday and inform me it smells like roses."

What has been actually sickening, within the wake of Charlie Kirk’s heartbreaking murder , are the sickos who flooded social media to rejoice his demise.

Professors, lecturers, journalists and plenty of others have been fired for such conduct, although that they had no must vent their fury on-line. They didn’t know Kirk. Who would wish to make use of somebody so heartless that they don’t care about his spouse, and the youngsters, 3 and 1, who need to develop up with out him?

No marvel I’m indignant. That is disgusting and pathetic.

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Maybe it’s no coincidence that this is likely one of the most well-known strains in film historical past, delivered by the sweating, wild-eyed anchor performed by Peter Finch:

"I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!"

Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 AM-12PM/ET). Based mostly in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in 2013 and frequently seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and The Story with Martha MacCallum amongst different packages.