Don’t be gaslit by the media: Most political violence is by the left

Don’t be gaslit by the media: Most political violence is by the left. By Sarah Anderson at PJ Media:

From the US State Department:

Historically, most politically motivated terrorism in the West has been carried out by violent far-left groups and individuals. Between 1970 and 1980, far-left terrorists were responsible for 93% of terrorist attacks and 58% of terrorism-related deaths.

Since 2016, far-left terrorist plots and attacks have sharply increased in the United States and Europe, with a growing trend of violence against individuals.

Far-left anti-government terrorism now accounts for more attacks and plots in the United States than any other ideological category. Far-left actors were responsible for 63% of all recorded anti-government attacks or plots as well as three out of the four anti-government fatalities in the United States in 2025.

In 2024, there were 21 attacks in the European Union attributed to far-left and anarchist terrorists, as compared to 24 attacks from jihadist terrorists that same year. Of the 45 reported terrorist attacks in Europe in 2025, 12 were attributed to far-left and anarchist actors.

The article:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited the foreign ministers and other senior officials from over 60 countries to Washington, D.C. for a summit on combatting the “resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism.”…

So far, the State Department has designated various Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations …

[Rubio] accused many in the press, academia, and other legacy institutions of dismissing left-wing violence as a “right-wing fever dream.” He added that “a bomb planted by a Neo-Nazi group” is often labeled a “nefarious and murderous act of evil,” while a “bomb planted by a Marxist Revolutionary” is “just merely a tragic excess of idealism.”

Rubio went on to say that many people here in the United States dismiss acts of violence and terrorism if it benefits the left-wing cause and that it’s time to put an end to that. He pointed to the George Floyd riots from the summer of 2020 and how media outlets called them “mostly peaceful” despite all the obvious violence and crime we saw with our own eyes, as well as other more recent examples, like Charlie Kirk’s murder, assassination attempts on Donald Trump, violence against ICE officers, and a transgender individual shooting up an elementary school. He listed numerous examples from other countries as well.

 

 

 

Then he dropped this, which was the best part of the speech in my opinion. This is exactly why I like this guy:

“This is a distinctive and unique evil.

“It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and cowardly against the strong and the good.

“It’s perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacies, by seeking to destroy those who can.

“This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist, communist, anarchist, Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same.

“It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality, justice, and liberation; an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built; to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer.”

No wonder the left hate meritocracy and love “equity.”

UPDATE: More worth watching:

“You are here because two weeks ago, a 72-year-old woman was BURNED on over 80% of her body in her own home, in Greece, and she died, executed by a fire bomb because her daughter dared to stand for office!”

“Far-left political terrorism is NOT a recent day modern novelty. It is NOT a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians.”

“For most of the modern era, it was in fact the DOMINANT form of political violence.”

“You are here today because for five days this winter, the lights went out in Berlin. The longest blackout in the city since the Second World War sparked by an attack that left tens of thousands of households without power in the freezing cold and left an 83-year-old woman dead.”

“You are here and you came because a month after that Berlin blackout, a French 23-year-old succumbed to traumatic brain injuries beaten to death on the streets of Lyon by a group of far-left militant thugs.”

“You are here because your political leaders are being attacked and stabbed and shot in your streets — because your businesses have been bombed, because your railways have been sabotaged, because your police officers have been beaten and burned!”‘

“You are here because this is real and it is getting worse and it can no longer be denied and it can no longer be ignored because it is time to crush this evil forever!”

 

 

“In one 18 month period between 1971 and 1972, the FBI counted some 2,500 bombings on American soil — a rate of nearly 5 a day.

The overwhelming share of that violence came from Left-Wing extremists… these are numbers that would shock most Americans today because we’ve been taught to believe that this kind of political violence, it simply doesn’t exist or it’s being exaggerated — but it does exist, and we’re actually underestimating it.”