Glenn Beck

It's not when violence is everywhere.

It's this phase, when violence is still sporadic, but it is being justified, it's being romanticized, it's being excused, and it's being operationalized.

That's when recruitment grows.

That's when copycats appear.

That's when people stop trusting investigations.

That's when each side begins preparing for the worst and preparation itself becomes self-fulfilling.

So if we want to stop this, if we want to avoid the slow fracture, there have to be things that are not negotiable.

One, uniform consequences for political violence.

Never our side exceptions.

No moral licensing.

No mostly peaceful.

No.

If you're trying to terrorize a community into compliance, if you're burning buildings down, if you are shouting and intimidating, no, that's not a peaceful protest.

That's not what that is.

Lawful, restrained, visible enforcement.

Listen to this again.

Lawful, restrained enforcement.

Precision matters because overreach creates martyrs.

Weakness creates paramilitaries.

The state has to be both firm and disciplined.