We’ve witnessed the tragic assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, we watched in horror as two attempts were made on Donald Trump’s life in 2024, we’ve seen countless attacks on ICE, and we recoiled in disgust at the depraved outpouring of support for Luigi Mangione, the alleged cold-blooded killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. That is a very partial list of the leftist violence we have seen in the age of Trump.
We also see liberal pundits and Democrats opine about “bothsidesism,” and how both the left and the right are equally culpable in what we’re seeing in this country.
A new report from the D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, however, pours water all over that narrative and shows that you’re not imagining things:
Our analysis of terrorism trends in the United States shows that, indeed, left-wing violence has risen in the last 10 years, particularly since President Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence in 2016, although it has risen from very low levels and remains much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by right-wing and jihadist attackers.
The Center claims to be unbiased, but you can see that they lump in those on the right with jihadists. Meanwhile, its president and COO, John Hamre, served in the Department of Defense under Bill Clinton and was a member of Obama’s transition team. The chairman is Thomas Pritzker, executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and the Pritzker Organization, and cousin of Illinois’ far-left governor JB. You decide.
My guess is that they really didn't like reporting on their findings.
But they couldn’t escape one very clear fact (emphasis mine):
More contentious politics in the United States and the expansion of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement appear to have reenergized violent left-wing extremists. The left-wing movement as a whole has not returned to its violent heights of the 1960s and 1970s, but the number of terrorist incidents involving left-wing extremists so far this year puts 2025 on pace to be the left’s most violent year in more than three decades.
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What about the “Whataboutism” narrative favored by the leftist chattering class? You won't hear this on CNN or MSNBC:
Indeed, the increase in left-wing attacks is particularly noticeable because attacks from right-wing perpetrators have sharply declined in 2025. This decline is striking, and explanations are speculative.
Scenes like this have become an almost daily occurrence, and there are no MAGA hats to be found:
It’s true that there are crazies on both sides, and people of many different political ideologies have committed acts of violence. However, at this juncture in history, it is clearly left-wing violence that is on the rise, and the corrupt politicians and biased press are not helping the problem—in fact, they’re exacerbating it—by pretending it doesn’t exist.