This Viral Video Shows What We’ve Lost — And It’s Devastating

Political consultants spend a lot of time trying to manufacture enthusiasm. And they make a lot of money doing it — or failing to do it, in many cases. Kamala Harris’ campaign ended up in debt, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, because they paid a few celebrities to pretend to like her. This kind of political marketing is big business because, increasingly, our politicians are out of ideas. They’re inauthentic. They’re not particularly bright. So they cut some checks, and hope for the best.

But the best kind of political messaging, and by far the most effective, isn’t really political at all. If you want to motivate millions of people to vote in a particular way, it’s actually not that difficult. It doesn’t require a convoluted argument, or an appeal to authority, or exhaustive statistics, or anything like that. All you need to do is show people what’s been taken from them.

You have to demonstrate that, not too long ago, people lived much better lives, on a day-to-day basis.

You have to illustrate, in an objective fashion, that the birthright of millions of Americans has been stolen.

It’s harder to find a man who’s angrier — and justifiably so — than a man whose children will be forced to grow up in a more dangerous, more dirty, less wealthy, and less proud nation than the one his ancestors did. This is why Trump’s famous slogan, “Make America Great Again,” resonated to the degree that it did.

And it’s also why this footage — posted by the official account of Fenway Park in Boston on April 2nd — has racked up more than ten million views, and radicalized pretty much everyone who’s seen it.

In their post, Fenway Park was attempting to mark the occasion of Opening Day.

And to do that, they posted old footage of previous Opening Days at Fenway Park in the 1950s.

See what you notice:

Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/JHs7eblKDp

— Fenway Park (@fenwaypark) April 3, 2026

@fenwaypark/X.com

Everyone’s well-dressed. They’re behaving in an orderly fashion. Everything looks clean and bright and safe. You can’t help but notice that pretty much everyone is white. And in general, they all seem to be happy.

Immediately, tens of thousands of comments began flooding in. Here’s just a handful of them.

National Revival wrote, “Mayor Michelle Wuhan and the Radical Left have done everything in their power to erase this version of the Once Beautiful City of Boston.”

Thymotic Assertion wrote, “Dear God, this is heartbreaking. What have we done to our civilization since the 1960s cultural revolution?”

Sovereign Economy wrote, “America of the past is unrecognizable when compared to today. Sad..”

PNWxNobody wrote, “Um, where’s the diversity? Where’s all the Somalians and transgenders that are the fabric of ‘our democracy?’ This is racist and transphobic.”

Cape Aerial wrote, “It’s wild how you can post a video from 60 years ago in Boston and it immediately looks like (what Democrats call) ‘White supremacist’ propaganda.”

And on and on. Every single comment was like this.

So eventually, the Fenway Park account decided to shut down the comments section. No one else could reply to their video, at least not directly.

So, Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas wrote this message about Fenway Park’s video on his own feed.

A world my generation never got to experience. Our country declined so much in just a few decades, and it’s utterly radicalizing.

You can make the case that this short, one-minute video from Fenway Park is the single most effective piece of political messaging of the year. Everyone knows that Boston no longer looks anything like that footage from the 1950s. And everyone knows that, since the 1950s, every single major city in the United States has transformed in very similar ways, from Los Angeles to Detroit to New York.

For simplicity’s sake, let’s stick to Boston for now.

Take a look at this chart.

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The demographic element of this story is unavoidable. In 1950, white people accounted for 95% of Boston’s population. As of last year, whites are now a minority. The white population dropped to 45% in 2018, and it’s been falling ever since. This is the kind of mind-blowing, historic demographic transformation that, if it were happening to any other race or ethnicity, it would be treated as a crisis and a tragedy. But for white people, it’s supposed to be a cause for celebration. 

More than a quarter of Boston’s residents were born in a foreign country — typically the Dominican Republic, China, or Haiti. According to the city government, “234,792 residents (37% of Boston’s population) speak another language at home,” besides English. And more than 105,000 people — 16% of Boston Residents aged five and older — “do not speak English as their primary language and have some language access need in speaking, reading, writing, or understanding English.” Instead of English, they’re speaking Spanish, “Haitian Creole,” Mandarin and Vietnamese. And those are just the official numbers. A lot of illegal aliens don’t respond to these surveys. So the actual figures are probably even worse — a lot worse.

This is a transformation that no American should tolerate. It is total demographic replacement. Even if Boston (and other major cities) were importing high-achieving, law-abiding foreigners — which they aren’t — it would still be unacceptable. This country was built, in every meaningful way, predominantly by white people who came from Europe and descended from Europeans. Those Americans created a distinct culture and way of life — which is why we’re basically the only country on the planet anymore that actually respects the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion, or that’s capable of sending men to the moon. That’s worth defending. But unless we make the active, conscious choice to defend this country, we will lose it. That’s how the Bolsheviks conquered Russia — people got too complacent and too passive. It’s also how other Western countries, including the UK and Canada, have collapsed in a very short period of time. They’re unrecognizable now. They’ve been colonized, without a single shot being fired, by foreigners who have nothing in common with them. The same thing is happening to us.

Take a look at this footage from Opening Day at Fenway, from a couple of days ago.

See if you notice any differences from the 1950s:

Missed the loudest part but my favorite annual tradition. Booing mayor WUhan https://t.co/exbaLIvitb pic.twitter.com/qp0Xt9aGNq

— Alex (@Alexzachary305) April 3, 2026

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Boston’s Mayor Got Booed At The Red Sox Home Opener

Boston mayor Michelle Wu was a guest at the Boston Red Sox home opener on Friday and it’s safe to say that she isn’t a beloved figure at Fenway Park. pic.twitter.com/aDq20Id2ve

— 𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 (@pr0ud_americans) April 6, 2025

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The mayor is a Taiwanese communist. And everyone is booing her, probably because the audience at baseball games skews conservative. Presumably, they’re not happy with the fact that Boston obstructs federal immigration law or that Massachusetts has one of the highest tax burdens in the entire country. 

According to one recent poll:

…a third of Massachusetts voters are either personally considering moving out of the state in 2026 or know someone who is thinking about leaving.

You see, it turns out that, when you discriminate against white people and import a zillion foreigners into a welfare state, everything gets more expensive for productive people. And then those productive people move to Florida. Who could’ve seen that coming?

In the wake of that Boston video, conservatives have posted a slew of similar videos from major cities.

Look at this video of NYC in 1975, see how peaceful it was?

Look at how everybody seems to be enjoying their lives, and not contrast it to today. Our country has been ruined.pic.twitter.com/KiqGcmEnp9

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) April 5, 2026

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Philadelphia pre 1965 Hart-Cellar act. pic.twitter.com/oFonkvTr8y

— The General (@1776General_) April 5, 2026

Source: @1776General_/X.com

We’ll put the viral videos from New York and Boston up on the screen now. And on the surface, these videos seem just like the one that Fenway Park’s official account posted. They were clearly shot a long time ago. And they portray major American cities that are unrecognizable compared to today.

But it’s important, when you’re looking at these videos, to understand exactly when they were recorded. Some of this footage (particularly the footage from New York) is actually from the 1970’s. And regardless of what this footage might imply, that was not a good decade for New York. Cities like New York were a lot more dangerous in 1975 than they are today. If you were alive at that time, or if you saw the movie “Death Wish,” then you know exactly what I’m talking about. So right now, all over social media, conservatives are posting videos of 1970’s New York, as if it was some kind of utopia. And various figures on the Left are pointing out that these conservatives are wrong.

That’s a sign, from my perspective, that conservatives need to learn a lot more about the specific causes of urban decline in the United States. There’s no other way to say this: If you think it happened after the 1970s, then you fundamentally misunderstand American history. And that’s a big problem if you want to undo the damage that both political parties have done to this country.

To illustrate what I’m talking about, let’s go back to Boston. This is a quote from the Boston Globe, written by a journalist named Ray Richard. It was published on November 1st, 1970.

It reads, “The odds are greater than they’ve ever been that anyone in Boston in the wrong circumstances at the right time will be shot, stabbed, choked, burned, beaten, drowned, or kicked to death. … The wrong circumstances might be opening your garage doors to put the car away — while someone with a knife intending to rob you is hidden inside. Or sitting at a bar, minding your own business, when a fight breaks out and an onlooker — you — gets shot and dies. Or doing your assigned work as a clerk in a variety store or a bank manager when a holdup man bursts in.”

That article would indicate that the 1960s were the decade when everything went south for Boston. And indeed, if you pull up the Police Commissioner’s report for the City of Boston in 1969, that’s exactly what you’ll find. 

Take a look at this:

In 1966, the total number of robberies in Boston — including highway robberies, commercial robberies, home invasions and so on — was 1,121. That’s a rate of 1.78 per 1,000 residents. By 1969, the total number of robberies had soared to 2,984, or 4.75 per 1,000 residents. In other words, in just three years, your odds of getting robbed in Boston increased by nearly 3 times.

You can see how sharp the increase was. That’s a chart from the same report by the Police Commissioner. Street robberies became almost exactly three times more common.

Now let’s take a look at a violent crime — aggravated assault. Let’s see how that changed during the 1960s.

In 1966, a total of 1,029 aggravated assaults — meaning assaults committed with a gun, knife, or other dangerous weapon, including fists — were recorded in Boston. By 1969, that number had increased to 1,529. In per capita terms, that’s an increase from 1.64 aggravated assaults per 1,000 residents to a rate of 2.43 aggravated assaults per 1,000 residents. Today, as of 2025, that number is even higher. Boston’s rate of aggravated assault is around 3.7 per 1,000 residents. So in Boston, you’re more than twice as likely to get attacked with a deadly weapon in 2025 as compared to 1966.

But if you listen to the corporate press, including local stations, you’ll hear a very different story.

Watch:

So how could this be? How is it possible that the murder rate is comparable to the 1950s, even as other crimes — like shoplifting (and aggravated assault) and so on — are going up? The media doesn’t have an explanation for this. They simply say that, in general, Boston has gotten safer.

But that’s not true. Murders are down, in large part, because of medical advances since the 1950s. A stabbing victim who would’ve died of infection in the 1950s can now be saved, relatively easily. The modern 911 system didn’t even exist in the 1950s, so emergency response was slower. They also didn’t have CT scans that would show the precise location of internal bleeding or organ damage. Blood banks weren’t anywhere near as organized. We have a better understanding of antibiotics and trauma surgery.

A study that was published in 2002 in the journal “Homicide Studies” found that, “Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments over the past 40 years. According to new research, doctors are saving the lives of thousands of victims of attack who four decades ago would have died and become murder statistics. … In the research, [Dr. Anthony Harris] and a team from the University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School found that technological developments had helped to significantly depress today’s murder rates, converting homicides into aggravated assaults. ‘Without this technology, we estimate there would be no less than 50,000 and as many as 115,000 homicides annually instead of an actual 15,000 to 20,000,’ they say.”

On top of that, people might commit fewer murders now because they’re much more likely to get caught. Surveillance cameras and cellphones are everywhere. DNA evidence is now common. And at the moment, murder is the *one crime* that might — potentially — provoke a serious response from prosecutors in Democrat-run cities. It’s the one crime that you generally want to avoid. If you steal $10,000 in merchandise or assault a police officer, you probably won’t spend any time in jail. So the decline in murders doesn’t mean that cities are as safe as they were in the 1950s. It means that technology has improved, and criminals are simply committing other crimes. And criminals began committing those crimes, in large numbers, in the 1960s.

That’s the key point: The rule of law in America broke down very quickly, at a very specific moment. It was the Civil Rights era, and the various inventions of the Civil Rights movement, that rapidly destroyed American cities. And the consequences are very apparent today. The journalist Tony Heller has spent the last week going through homicide data from the City of New York’s official website.

Here’s what he found.

There were 83 shootings in Queens, NY during 2025. None of the shooters were white. 

There were 111 shootings in Manhattan during 2025. None of the shooters were white.

There were almost 300 shootings in The Bronx during 2025. None of the shooters were white.

And on and on. A lot of these shootings didn’t result in homicides, so they won’t show up in “murder rates.” But they’re obviously a sign of a city that’s declining. And it’s clearly declining *because* its demographics changed, in accordance with the demands of civil rights leaders.

It was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act, that accelerated this transformation. This is where the whole “melting pot” idea breaks down, by the way. A century ago, America accepted foreigners who came predominantly from Western countries like Italy and Austria. They mostly assimilated into our culture because they shared our values. 

Then the Hart-Celler Act passed. And look what happened then:

Now, a much larger percentage of migrants to America are coming from Mexico, Latin America, and Asia. And the raw number of migrants has increased exponentially. Annual net migration, according to official statistics, went from a few hundred thousand people to several million. It’s the exact opposite of what Americans were told. Senator Ted Kennedy said, “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.” Senator Hiram Fong, a Republican, said, “Our cultural pattern will never be changed as far as America is concerned.” That’s how they sold this legislation to us, at the height of the Civil Rights era. None of it was true.

And now everyone knows it was a lie. That’s the big breakthrough with the Fenway Park footage. An idea that was fringe on the Right, for many generations, is going mainstream. No one can deny that our elected leaders in Washington have betrayed us. They’ve made our cities unrecognizable. And Democrats are doing everything in their power to make the problem even worse. 

This is from the New York Post the other day.

A homeless couple has turned a block of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s old neighborhood into a nauseating love nest where they booze it up, have sex, and poop in pizza boxes, ignoring disgusted locals who fruitlessly beg the city to take action. … The pair have been living in a mountain of their own trash on 30th Avenue near Steinway Street in Astoria for the last month, commandeering the sidewalk between a Duane Reade and a New York Sports Club. ‘I’m on the way to the gym, 8:30 a.m., the guy is squatting over a camp chair and the other woman is holding a pizza box under him to defecate in,’ said neighbor Chris Shingler. ‘This is primetime, work day, kids going by to school, this is right out front in the middle of the sidewalk,’ said the 46-year-old, who moved to the rising neighborhood with his wife in 2007.

In the Giuliani era, they’d throw these people in prison in about five minutes. You see, Giuliani believed in enforcing the law — every law. He knew that, if someone deliberately breaks the law, there’s a good chance they’re going to commit many other crimes. He also understood that, if you’re going to have a functioning society, you can’t allow people to openly ignore the rule of law. If you crack down on every crime — even the nonviolent ones — then you’ll make the city a lot safer, very quickly. Again, the decline of New York is a choice. It’s engineered by Democrats.

As if to illustrate that point, back in Massachusetts, here’s Ayanna Pressley — a leading contender for dumbest member of Congress now that Jasmine Crockett is on the way out.

Watch:

Housing is a human right and evictions are an act of policy violence.

My HELP Act would give a lifeline to families facing eviction and vital resources during this time of crisis. pic.twitter.com/RyU1dkBe05

— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) April 3, 2026

Source: @AyannaPressley/X.com

She’s absolutely right about that last part. Because of the way the laws are written in cities like Boston and New York, it’s virtually impossible for landlords to evict anyone. If someone wants to stay in your property, even if they don’t have any kind of written lease, and even if they don’t pay rent for months, judges will rule in their favor.

Watch:

The reason judges issue rulings like this is that they subscribe to Democrat Party orthodoxy, which states that housing is a “human right”, and that eviction is a violent and unlawful act. They simply don’t believe in the right to own private property, because in their view, that right conflicts with some imaginary “right to housing.” Remember that, during COVID, the federal government decided to nationalize every rental property in the United States. They used the CDC — yes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — to ban evictions. So tenants could stay wherever they wanted, without paying rent. 

This whole idea — that housing is a “human right” — is very closely related to the broader decline in American cities. It’s an idea that paints homeless people as victims who are being deprived of rights, rather than vagrants who are actively depriving the rest of us of our right to live in a clean and safe community. The truth is that no one has a *right* to someone else’s labor, or to someone else’s property. You have the right to speak your mind, to practice your religion, to carry a weapon, and so on. But you don’t have the right to force other people to house you.

Beginning in the 1960s, as part of the radical transformation of the Civil Rights era, Democrats decided to reject that fundamental American principle. They decided to begin forcing people to hire candidates on the basis of race, and to force their children to attend schools they didn’t want to attend, and so on. And as they did so, Democrat elites made every effort to avoid confronting the consequences of their own decisions. There’s an article that’s going viral right now, from a foreign cultural magazine called “Thymos.” 

Here’s a paragraph from that article, which was written by an Austrian on a visit to Washington D.C. He’s talking about the fact that Georgetown, one of the wealthiest areas of D.C., doesn’t have a metro stop — so people from poor areas can’t easily travel to Georgetown.

I have already spent several days in the USA and already gained the most important sociological insights from my study trip. … We’re sitting in a bar in Georgetown, an English-style area of Washington DC. It’s a rich area. And therefore not accessible by public transport. The residents may be on the left, but apparently it is important to them not to offer African Americans the opportunity to get to their residential area.

That’s the guiding ethos of the American Left, beginning with the Civil Rights era. They unleashed pure destruction and devastation on American cities, and they left ordinary Americans to deal with the carnage they left behind in their wake. When I say “carnage,” if anything, that’s an understatement. The Civil Rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men, women, and children throughout the United States.

That’s why the next two episodes of my documentary series “Real History” are going to explore the extent of this devastation — and how exactly it happened. It’s far more than I can unpack in any one monologue, or any one segment, so it’s going to be a two-part episode. We’ll dive into everything from busing to disparate impact theory, to the brutal fate that awaited many of the poor and elderly Americans who couldn’t participate in so-called “white flight,” to the life of Martin Luther King Jr. — which isn’t anything remotely like what the history books tell you. This is a comprehensive, point-by-point breakdown of where exactly America went wrong as a country. It’s an in-depth explanation of why that Fenway Park video is so radicalizing to so many people — and why that radicalization is fully justified. Once you understand how quickly our elites destroyed every urban center in this country, it becomes easier to understand how quickly we can reverse the damage they’ve done. And as tens of millions of Americans react in horror at the sight of that damage, now’s the time — more than any other time in recent history — to get started