September’s Trail of Blood Reveals Deep Psychological and Political Fractures

America witnessed an unprecedented surge of politically motivated violence in September 2025, culminating in two devastating attacks that exposed the dangerous intersection between conspiracy theories and extremist violence. Within 18 days, the nation endured the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a mass shooting at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, and a waterfront bar attack in North Carolina—all perpetrated by military veterans radicalized through different ideological pathways but united by their embrace of fringe conspiracy theories and violent solutions to perceived grievances.

A groundbreaking Harvard Kennedy School study, published just months before these attacks, provides cru

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