Spencer Pratt may be finished with his campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, but he clearly has no intention of fading politely into the background.

After building an audience with hard hitting videos created through artificial intelligence, Pratt returned Sunday with a ten minute social media monologue aimed squarely at America’s decaying moral compass.

Pratt opened with a blunt assessment rather than a polite warning.

"We've lost our damn minds," he said, setting the tone for an argument about crime, propaganda, institutional failure, and the disturbing celebration of villains.

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His central example was the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children in the family basement before trying to take her own life.

Pratt was especially appalled by internet users who rushed to defend Clancy while directing blame toward her husband, who returned home to discover the horror.

"The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their WiFi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok," Pratt said.

He estimated that hundreds of accounts were participating in this warped campaign to redirect sympathy away from the dead children and toward the person accused of killing them.

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Pratt argued that this collapse in basic judgment began long before social media algorithms took control of public debate.

He traced much of the damage to the COVID era, when powerful officials imposed sweeping restrictions on ordinary Americans while repeatedly finding excuses for their own conduct.

"Our institutions completely eviscerated their own reputation and dignity," Pratt said.

He cited California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who enforced lockdown rules while attending an unmasked dinner with lobbyists at the French Laundry.

"If you went paddleboarding, alone in the middle of the ocean, you needed to be arrested for killing Grandma. But of course, if you riot with 500,000 people, that's totally fine, because viruses take a timeout when it comes to social justice," Pratt said.

That hypocrisy did more than generate anger, since it taught millions of Americans that official rules were flexible whenever the political class wanted them to be.

Once institutions destroy their credibility, people begin treating every event as another manufactured narrative.

Pratt contended that this habit has left many Americans eager to excuse criminals, provided those criminals can be squeezed into the preferred ideological script.

"Luigi Mangione shot a healthcare CEO in the back, and communists celebrated him," Pratt said.

He also noted that women continued sending Mangione love letters in prison even after his guilty plea, another grim sign that notoriety now carries more cultural value than decency.

Pratt connected that impulse directly to the sympathy surrounding Clancy.

He argued that maternal instinct has been hijacked and “reallocated towards whatever group the algorithm has designated as the vulnerable class.”

In Pratt’s telling, the problem did not begin with TikTok or any other single platform.

Movies and television spent decades conditioning audiences to sympathize with villains, question obvious victims, and view moral clarity as simplistic or uncool.

He pointed to Dead Man Walking, which he said “planted the seed that vile criminals deserve her heartfelt tears,” before arguing that Dexter “injected it with steroids.”

Entertainment may call that complexity, but Pratt sees a culture teaching itself to admire evil as long as the villain receives a compelling backstory.

" Breaking Bad was so brilliant, but it made us cheer on a narcissistic, murderous criminal drug kingpin who destroyed his family over money," Pratt said.

He also contrasted the plainly deranged Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman with the sympathetic figure presented decades later in Todd Phillips’ Joker.

Pratt then turned to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which he learned about during an interagency meeting in Washington concerning Palisades recovery efforts.

People in the room had known Kirk personally, and Pratt said their devastation stood in stark contrast to the ghoulish celebration that quickly emerged from figures on the Left.

"The reactions that followed were far more grotesque and reveal a sad report on where we are as a country," he said.

Pratt refused to hide behind partisan excuses, adding, "What have you become when you celebrate an assassination like this? I don't care what your politics are. This was a father, a loving husband," he said.

His message was larger than one criminal case, one app, or one political assassination.

America is losing the ability to distinguish victims from villains, while ideological mobs treat cruelty as virtue whenever the target has been declared politically acceptable.

Pratt ended with a bleak observation that captured the entire argument.

"We have no dignity anymore, and I don't know how we get it back," he said.

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