How much worse does it get?

“Tim Pool Addresses Shots Fired At His Property, This Is The End: We cannot continue like this as a country nor company. Change must be made”

This is one of my favorite podcasts. Tim Pool and his team do an outstanding job presenting real issues in balance with a great list of guests.

Just the other night, his property was shot at while he and his family were home. It’s heartbreaking to watch how far the Left has fallen—so thoroughly indoctrinated that mere disagreement with conservative views now justifies violence in their minds.

How much worse does this get?

It will keep getting worse as long as Democratic elites in Congress, the media, and Hollywood continue demonizing conservatives and Trump supporters as “Nazis,” “fascists,” “Gestapo,” and every other vile name under the sun. When people who refuse to do their own research—many of whom feel unsuccessful, left behind, or are simply lazy—are bombarded 24/7 with this kind of apocalyptic rhetoric, some inevitably come to believe that “taking out” conservatives is a patriotic duty.

Even relatively small voices like mine—through my books, posts, podcast appearances, and Substack articles—will eventually end up on someone’s target list.

And yet, I have not heard a single prominent Democrat or left-wing celebrity walk back this violent, eliminationist language. Not one.

This is the deliberate application of Fifth-Generation Warfare (information and perception manipulation) to incite Fourth-Generation Warfare (non-state political violence) right here on American soil.

When does it end?

How far do conservatives, and those who believe in our Constitutional Republic, get pushed before we fight back?

This is why I have written several articles that today’s Democratic party is the biggest threat to our nation, see this article among others,

Vandergriff, Donald E. “Our Enemy Is Not China, Russia or Islam (But Close), It Is the Modern, Far Left Democratic (Criminal) Party.” Small Wars Journal. Substack, 2025.

Vandergriff, Donald E. “America’s Second Civil War: The 4th and 5th Generation Siege on Our Constitutional Republic.” Donald Vandergriff (blog). Substack, October 8, 2025. https://donvandergriff.substack.com/p/americas-second-civil-war-the-4th.

Vandergriff, Donald E. “4th Generation Warfare: The Insidious Evolution of Far-Left Strategies in American Politics.” Donald Vandergriff (blog). Substack, August 27, 2025. https://donvandergriff.substack.com/p/4th-generation-warfare-the-insidious.

In these Substack articles, I describe a modern “second civil war” as an insidious 4GW/5GW campaign by “cultural saboteurs” against the foundations of the U.S. Constitutional Republic. I explicitly links these threats to “Democratic elites and their cultural Marxist allies,” portraying their tactics—like violent rhetoric and propaganda—as central to the siege on the nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage and legitimacy.

– Donald E. Vandergriff

Donald E. Vandergriff is retired Marine enlisted/Army Tank officer, as well as an award-winning teacher, speaker, and author. A defense analyst and military historian, he is co-author with William S. Lind of numerous military reform treatises. He served as a senior advisor on personnel reform during the Bush administration, appeared in Washington Post in June 2002, then on the cover of Army Times twice in the summer and fall of 2002, and has written or edited 11 books and more than 100 articles. He continues to consult on Mission Command and Maneuver Warfare doctrine for the nations of Ukraine and Taiwan, as well as for law enforcement agencies. He can be reached at vandergriffdonald@usa.net or by subscribing for free to his Substack at https://substack.com/@donvandergriff?utm_source=user-menu.

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