The normies have woken up. They have been rudely jolted out of their lethargic slumber, and shaken free of their fear of being called names that the left deems as modern mortal sins. For over 15 years I have been writing and podcasting on this tiny corner of the internet, all the time aware that I was one of a few shouting with little power into the force of a cyclone of evil, unheard, unwanted and despised.
But last night I realised that the time of living in a tiny corner is over. Because the corner has suddenly become the mainstream. At the little bar in the little Italian mountain village where I live, people spoke to me about the murder of Iryna Zarutska. They are no longer cowed into being thought of as racist. I openly discussed my long held view that blacks are violent and hopeless when transplanted en masse into white societies. Such a discourse would have met with perplexed and uncomfortable anger just a week ago. Now I had people lining up to not only agree with me, but to amplify and to take the arguments to areas until recently only spoken in whispers.
And then there is the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the normie hero to normies. Murdered for the crime of daring to attempt open dialogue with the left. He was killed because he was effective and they had no other answer for him. But his message in his death has resonated so greatly because he walked with Christ. Make no mistake, if Christianity had not been a core part of Kirk’s message then his death would not have had anywhere close to the impact that it is having on the world.
Charlie had his faults, not least getting into bed with what turned out to be most likely his killers. But things are now shifting. The common folk are aware. They have seen, they have understood, and they are angry and not anymore willing to go quietly into the dying light of their near defeated civilizations. They have noticed.
It remains to be seen what to make of this spark; will it lead to a conflagration, or will it fizzle out while the pile of dry tinder grows ever higher? I do not know. But I do know that things are no longer the same. The script has flipped, and many major actors are unsure of which way to tread. And in historical terms, when big things happen they happen at speed.
Originally published at Pushing Rubber Downhill. You can purchase Adam’s books here.
