Left-Wing Terrorism Has Been Unleashed - Issues & Insights
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For years, we were told by government officials and outside "experts" that the terrorists in our midst were mostly right-wing fanatics - a list that under the Biden administration came to include parents who spoke up at local school board meetings and Catholics who like the Latin mass.
But even the left is now admitting what everyone else already knows.
Namely, that despite their constant bleating about tolerance and peace, it's leftists who pose the greatest threat to Americans.
This week, the Trump-hating Atlantic magazine published an article titled "Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise," written by scholars at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
"We found that left-wing terrorism has increased since President Donald Trump's rise to political prominence in 2016. Indeed, 2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber those from the far right."
By early July, "far-left extremists had already been responsible for five terrorist attacks and plots, putting 2025 on pace to be the left's most violent year in more than three decades."
And their list doesn't include the killer who slaughtered two children in a Minneapolis church, the gunman who shot up ABC10 in Sacramento, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the killing in a New Hampshire restaurant by a gunman who shouted "free Palestine," or the attempted assassination of ICE agents in Dallas by a shooter who engraved bullet casings with "Anti-ICE" (but who ended up killing an illegal immigrant). All of these political attacks were committed by leftists — in just the past month.
It's likely even worse and much more lopsided than that.
We don't know what the CSIS authors are counting as "left wing" or "right wing" terrorist attacks, but our guess is that - based on other such assessments - they have downplayed the former and exaggerated the latter. Does CSIS include the 2020 BLM riots or the pro-Hamas campus sieges or the multitude of Antifa attacks as left-wing terrorism?
A widely cited report from the Anti-Defamation League claimed that three-quarters of "extremist" killings from 2015 to 2024 were carried out by right-wingers. But a closer look found that the ADL stretched the meaning of "right wing" to the point of absurdity to increase those numbers, while ignoring some even obvious left-wing killings - such as the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO by an overtly leftist (alleged) attacker.
A recent paper published by the libertarian Cato Institute made the same mistake. For example, the Cato paper counts Peyton Gendron, who murdered 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket and whose manifesto described himself as an "eco-fascist national socialist," as "right-wing."
The Cato report also "omitted genuine left-wing killers from his list entirely, including the Waukesha Christmas parade attacker who drove his truck through a crowd in 2021, killing six people," notes PJ Media. And it failed to count any of the Black Lives Matter violence of the 2020s as "left wing."
Yet, even with these caveats, the CSIS report found a sharp rise in left-wing terrorist attacks — which should come as no surprise to anyone.
For years, we've been pointing out polls that show that those on the left are far more likely to say violence is an acceptable form of political expression. (See, for example, " Will Left's Violent Tendencies Lead To U.S. Breakup Or Dictatorship?" March 16, 2021, or "Left-Wing Rage: Don't Pretend It Doesn't Exist," Aug. 18, 2023.)
For most of the past decade, Democrats, the mainstream media, and academia have provided a steady stream of strident and increasingly radicalized language to describe Republicans and conservatives. A new report from the Capital Research Center finds that George Soros' Open Society Foundations funneled more than $80 million to groups "tied to terrorism or extremist violence."
They called Trump a fascist. They called Charlie Kirk a fascist. They called ICE officials fascists. Heck, they called anyone they disagreed with a fascist. Over and over and over and over again. Worse, they actively encouraged attacks and celebrated assassins.
How hard is it to believe that all this talk is motivating their fellow leftists to take direct and violent action? These days, it's not hard at all.
How likely is it that they will admit their culpability and tone down their rhetoric? What's a snowball's chance in Hell?
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BREAKING: DHS announces federal agents in Broadview, IL were rammed & boxed in by 10 cars, including a woman armed w/ a semi-automatic gun who had posted online threats to “fuck up” ICE & was flagged in a CBP intel bulletin. DHS says feds fired on her defensively. DHS: “Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a crowd growing and we are deploying special operations to control a growing crowd.”
I sure enjoyed those few months when democrats objected to attacking LEOS.
It seems they still do. Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills would like for ICE officials to stop subjecting his LEOs to chemical agents, please and thank you. Also the EMTs and firefighters, if it's not too much to ask. I imagine it's tough to do CPR or drive a ladder truck with tear gas in one's eyes. Maybe the ICE agents could stop doing that.
No comment on the shooting of a reporter, eh? Freedom of the press is overrated, I suppose. That's why it's so far down the list in the Bill of Rights.
Classic, so the federal officers over reacted in their response to violent rioters at the fence of the facility therefore community resources can't react and in fact the entire community is harmed....
And then seem to be upset when they say fuck you we'll do it ourselves....
Why is their overreaction excusable, and were these actual "violent rioters", or were they nonviolent protesters? Be sure to use the same standards you would if they were storming the Capitol, bashing officers with flagpoles.
Do what? Attack protesters? Shoot reporters? Build illegal fences that keep firefighters from fighting fires? Pepper spray the guys and gals trying to get granny to the hospital when she has a stroke?
Since when is violence by government against its own people who aren't committing crimes to be tolerated?
Why do you have an objection to the police department of Broadview wanting to protect its employees and its town's citizens and businesses? Isn't that what they're there for?
Why do you think they overreacted? Should they wait and find out or act based on current events?....
Mmmkay....
What I think needs to happen is for ICE to bring in video cameras with sound to record all that is going on here in Broadview as well as up in Portland at the ICE facility. The local government states that there are no riots and all the protests are peaceful and from the other side we are told that the protests are closer to violent riots. We need the video put on the evening news to show everything that is going on.
I just saw that a federal judge in Portland issued a TRO against the deployment of National Guard troops there.
Without clear evidence it's come down to a 'he said / she said' argument and nothing gets accomplished.
There are more than enough recorded incidents of ICE going too far , they made widespread protests inevitable through their own actions. I was watching a panel show a couple nights ago and when the topic of kids being zip tied in the middle of the night in a Chicago apartment building (US citizen kids by the way) came up a couple of the conservatives on the panel said the equivalent of "so what"?
This stuff is getting way out of hand.
From some of the stories reported I can agree. The problem I have with it is where the stories are coming from as I do not trust news sources. We have seen news sources lie and make up crap and we have seen videos that are edited to show exactly what the person wants shown rather than the full story. I would like news cameras broadcasting live from on top of the ICE facilities to show us exactly what is happening there. Without that, it continues to be this back & forth full of meaningless crap that feeds the partisan needs.
Greg, you're the one who claimed they overreacted. Remember?
There are too many goons in ICE. They have to be hiring people with no vetting at all.
I think Trump and Miller and Homan are getting their rocks off watching all this go down.
It is important to remember that the right does not hold exclusive rights to violent assholes who might act of their own volition. Since the administration officials see no reason to curb their free speech rights (even if they are all lying sacks of shit), I see no reason for the true protectors of the Constitution and Laws of this country to stop declaring the falseness of the authoritarian administration and the truth about how the country should be run as opposed to how it is being run aground on a reef of lies.
Kind of makes one wonder if Dowd was right when he paraphrased Jesus Matthew 26:52?