On Newsmax’s American Agenda this week, host Bob Brooks slammed the soft-on-crime narrative that left-wing media personalities keep pushing, specifically calling out comments from Charlamagne Tha God about violent episodes involving Chicago youth. Brooks warned that when cultural elites excuse or explain away brazen assaults and thefts as mere symptoms of poverty, they normalize lawlessness and abandon hardworking families who just want safe streets and schools.
A chilling viral video out of Chicago shows a mother and her 9-year-old son viciously attacked by a group of young offenders, leaving both hospitalized and a city in outrage. Local reports say the beatings were captured near Orville T. Bright Elementary and stemmed from ongoing bullying, and city officials publicly decried the violence while promising investigations.
Charlamagne’s own show condemned the attackers with a “Donkey of the Day,” but his broader posture — pushing solutions like more funding and mental health programs before accountability — plays right into the same playbook that has hollowed out too many Democrat-run cities. When influential commentators urge charity before consequences, they signal to predators that America’s institutions will tolerate escalating misbehavior rather than stop it.
Bob Brooks was right to call attention to the policy failures that let scenes like this happen: defunded policing, soft school discipline, and absence of parental accountability all contribute to a culture where children learn there are no real consequences. Voters in every state have watched their hometowns get worse while elites lecture them about systemic roots; it’s time those elites answer for the results of their preferred policies.
The conservative case is simple and urgent — restore law and order, restore real consequences in schools, and demand parental responsibility, not excuses. Protecting innocent families and children means enforcing the law, supporting police, and returning discipline to institutions that have been hollowed out by decades of bad ideas; anything less is betrayal of the American people who play by the rules.
