How A Weaponized Tragedy Brought Fascism to America's Media
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, September 19th. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:05.0 | And the warning is that the First Amendment is under assault by a fascist regime that won an election by 49.5% of the vote. |
| 0:17.0 | A week after a tragic assassination, the fascist regime of Donald Trump has attacked and accused |
| 0:25.5 | all of its opposition as being co-conspirators in murder. |
| 0:31.2 | And a fascist digital mob has taken to the internet to hunt, to find, and to purge any person who dares |
| 0:42.7 | to dissent from the deification of a Christian nationalist divider and outrage pimp named |
| 0:51.4 | Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:52.7 | So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out in hell, call their employer. |
| 0:58.2 | We don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility. |
| 1:02.3 | And there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. |
| 1:06.6 | Get involved. Get involved. Get involved. It's the best way to honor Charlie Kirk in his death |
| 1:15.2 | has become an instrument of propaganda. He's like Socrates. He asks questions and he does it with a smile. |
| 1:24.0 | So yeah, I'm going to go back to Socrates, who did the very same thing and challenge |
| 1:30.4 | the bureaucrats and the status quo and those in power. |
| 1:33.6 | ...and everybody around the table has. One thing I'll leave you with, we talk about |
| 1:37.8 | Socrates and Plato, no one ever asked during that era who was the richest person. |
| 1:42.9 | They wouldn't know who was the most thoughtful. |
| 1:51.3 | And who was shocked into a career in philosophy to continue the fight? Plato. So there are, |
| 1:56.8 | there's an entire generation of people who have heard Charlie Kirk's message. And Charlie Kirk found that philosophy unacceptable. And that's why he is a great American inventor, because |
| 2:04.0 | this is how the Industrial Revolution went forth was because of tinkerers and inventors who |
| 2:10.7 | saw problems and chose to solve them themselves. An incredible legacy, a movement that will only become stronger because of this young |
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