“Always going to end this way”

It was always going to end this way.

Liberal democracy has a built-in fatal flaw which guaranteed we would eventually reach this point.

And what guarantees violence isn’t actually immigration or ICE or even Leftist radicalism resulting in them engaged in isolated terrorist… https://t.co/xhZ97Cfshq

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) January 26, 2026

It was always going to end this way.

Liberal democracy has a built-in fatal flaw which guaranteed we would eventually reach this point.

And what guarantees violence isn’t actually immigration or ICE or even Leftist radicalism resulting in them engaged in isolated terrorist attacks or ridiculous acts of political martyrdom. Those are all the ascetics, not the mechanism itself driving us to conflict.

The mechanism is the liberal insistence that existential conflicts be treated as a procedural dispute rather than a clash of wills.

But politics can’t run on procedural neutrality forever.

The system has trained everyone to deny enmity at the same time that reality continues to reward those who still operate as if enmity exists.

The Left first discovered this contradiction during the post-Cold War period and used that knowledge to launch the Great Awokening. The Right came late to this realization but began to increasingly respond in kind after COVID, summer of 2020, and the Biden administration. And so the Left’s response will be to up the ante yet again, which will only be followed by yet more backlash from the Right.

This dynamic has steadily radicalized both sides, creating a positive feedback loop that will eventually grow strong enough to the point that no election outcome or court ruling will be capable of containing it. It will inevitably explode out in the open, as we have already seen.

The events in Minneapolis, Charlie’s assassination, the shooting at ICE officers in Texas, and a myriad of other acts of political violence are all early signs of this phenomenon slowly building steam with no release valve in sight because our liberal democratic system denies the steam even exists and turning the valve in one direction would necessarily exclude those in the other.

There is no way to de-escalate. Our system was designed to avoid an existential political crisis, not adjudicate one. Everything we have, our elections, courts, laws, constitution, and legal system are all built on the presumption that all existential political questions have already been answered. They have no way to arbitrate between one side that demands remigration as a matter of national survival and another that demands dissolving all borders as a moral imperative.

Precisely how things will eventually come to a head or under what pretext, I’m not sure. What I am sure of is that it’s an inevitability at this point. We are dealing with the political equivalent of Chernobyl Reactor #4.

It’s too late to put the brakes on this train. We’re in a race to see which side destroys the other first.