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On Strength Through Restraint

How Conservatives Must Resist the Trap of Violence After Charlie Kirk

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Richard L. Johnson
Sep 11, 2025
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“Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build in a hundred years.” - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Violence as a Political Language

Violence has always been more than bloodshed. It is a language, a signal, a performance meant to speak to the living as much as to silence th…

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