Is America descending from a culture war to a civil war?!

Jillian Michaels sits with political journalist and firebrand Brad Palumbo to expose how the unthinkable is being normalized. How political violence is openly celebrated, how extremist rhetoric is laundered through mainstream media and publicly elected politicians, and how figures with massive platforms are dragging the country toward something far darker than disagreement.

We examine moments that should have ended careers—Jennifer Welch celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk—and instead became stepping stones to legitimacy. We dissect how Tucker Carlson reduced U.S. foreign policy to a conspiratorial narrative involving gay marriage and Jewish influence, how Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes stoke dangerous conspiracy theories bringing them from the most toxic corners of the internet the masses.

What follows is already visible: citizens encouraged to view federal law enforcement as tyrants, treated not as civil servants but as Hitler’s secret police. Neighbors are rebranded as enemies. The scapegoating of minorities etc. When violence is reframed as resistance, when institutions lose all legitimacy, history tells us exactly where this leads.

This episode confronts the question no one wants to ask out loud:
Are we sleepwalking toward civil war?

Because when truth collapses, moral lines dissolve, and extremism is rewarded instead of confronted, the next phase isn’t debate.
It’s conflict.

Topics include: political radicalization, normalization of violence, conspiracy laundering, media corruption, delegitimization of institutions, tribalism, algorithmic extremism, and the growing risk of civil unrest in America.

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