In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Friday, bestselling author and national radio host Michael Savage warned that the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is not an isolated act of violence but a grim marker of a society unraveling, declaring that “we’re already in the civil war” he first cautioned against more than a decade ago.
Savage said the killing of Kirk, a young Christian leader who dedicated his life to restoring faith and meaning to American life, exposes the country’s collapse into what he called a “fetish for death” and the loss of spiritual grounding. “You see people today celebrating death, even the killings, of those they disagree with,” he said. “Something has broken in the West. It’s not just politics — it’s the loss of religion, of values, of a higher purpose. Charlie Kirk saw that and was trying to fight it.”
Savage pointed to endless wars abroad and the constant stream of killings broadcast on social media as the catalyst for what he described as a numbing of conscience. “The slaughter in Ukraine and Russia, the merciless killing back and forth, has desensitized the world. Human life no longer has meaning. And then people log on and watch killings replayed online every day. It’s breaking minds everywhere. No one even knows how to think clearly anymore.”
That cultural breakdown, Savage argued, is compounded by technology and narcissism. “The iPhone has made everyone into a star behind their bars — how many bars they have on their phone. Everyone’s the actor, writer, director, producer of their own show. They go on Instagram, and suddenly they think their opinions have the same validity as Einstein. If Einstein were alive today, he’d go on YouTube to explain the theory of relativity, and some schmuck would comment, ‘You’re just a Zionist Jew, you don’t know what you’re talking about.’ That’s what passes for dialogue.”
The result, he said, is a society where “truth is gone.” Schools no longer teach logic or critical thinking, Savage lamented, and “when anything goes, everything goes. Marriage doesn’t mean anything. Family doesn’t mean anything. Loyalty doesn’t mean anything. Everyone is living in their own world, a world unto themselves.”
