I tend to think of it as leftwing because of my personal experience. A very good friend of mine was swatted because of local politics. He went against the left wing city council, and while it’s too long a story, he ended up with cops on his roof and at his front door, guns drawn. Miracle he wasn’t killed. A perfectly decent man who almost had his life destroyed.
Did the incident even make page 59 in the local rag? Was there any kind of lawsuit afterward? Might this incident have taken place in a town on the outskirts of a major US city?