Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

Axios.com ^ | September 28, 2025 | Zachary Basu

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why it matters: America's domestic terrorism landscape has undergone a remarkable inversion since President Trump took office, as his policies have eased grievances on the far right while intensifying anger on the far left.

Far-right violence has historically been more frequent and more lethal, but plunged dramatically over the first six months of 2025.

• Despite the uptick in high-profile attacks like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, political violence remains rare and overwhelmingly opposed by most Americans.

By the numbers: CSIS researchers compiled and analyzed a data set of 750 domestic attacks and plots from Jan. 1, 1994, to July 4, 2025, categorizing them into "right," "left," "jihadist," "ethnonationalist" and "other."

• The data showed that left-wing extremists have carried out 41 attacks since 2016, compared with 152 from the far right over the same period.
• Left-wing violence has killed 13 people over the past decade — far fewer than the 112 deaths from right-wing attacks and 82 from jihadists.
• But at least five left-wing plots or attacks have already been recorded this year, compared to just one right-wing attack: The shooting of two Minnesota Democrats and their spouses.

The big picture: Trump responded to the Kirk assassination by designating antifa a "domestic terror organization," despite no known links between the alleged shooter and the decentralized movement of left-wing agitators.

• He also vowed to investigate liberal groups and progressive donors for allegedly funding violent protests, including billionaires George Soros and Reid Hoffman.

• Daniel Byman, the lead author of the CSIS study, warned Axios that the data should not be taken by the government "as an excuse for a crackdown on legitimate organizations."

[ClearCase_guy]

The data showed that left-wing extremists have carried out 41 attacks since 2016, compared with 152 from the far right over the same period.

Excuse me?

[PeterPrinciple]

Far-right violence has historically been more frequent and more lethal, but plunged dramatically over the first six months of 2025.

[bankwalker]

I’ll bet they count muzzies as far right.

[bankwalker]

I’ll bet they count muzzies as far right.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Far-right violence has historically been more frequent and more lethal, but plunged dramatically over the first six months of 2025.

Please give name and date of this "far right violence".

[Parley Baer]

Axios???? Bwahahahahaha

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I find it entertaining to see what lies they are telling today.

[Redmen4ever]

The source is biased. Below are my figures (sorry for the poor formatting). I’ll see if I can update my study and get it published.

As to which predominates, political violence has shifted.

During the ‘50s to mid ‘60s, right-wing violence (blowback to the Civil Rights movement) dominated.

During the late ‘60 to ‘70s, anti-war and black militant (blowback to the blowback) violence dominated.

Since then, the dominant source of violence has shifted back and forth a couple times.

Incidents Right-wing Other Left-wing

TOTAL 3875 1387 607 1881
35.8% 15.7% 48.5%

1954-67 571 528 13 30
92.5% 2.3% 5.3%

1968-70 868 44 60 764
5.1% 6.9% 88.0%

1971-78 751 102 217 432
13.6% 28.9% 57.5%

1979-86 446 212 142 92
47.5% 31.8% 20.6%

1987-94 291 188 48 55
64.6% 16.5% 18.9%

1995-02 435 181 50 204
41.6% 11.5% 46.9%

2003-18 513 132 77 304
25.7% 15.0% 59.3%

[JZelle]

Only far right is newsworthy, even if they have to make it up.

[MPJackal]

“I'll bet they count muzzies as far right.”

Yup. And they did not count any of the thousands of attacks during the summer of love as left wing.

[PeterPrinciple]

Far-right violence has historically been more frequent and more lethal, but plunged dramatically over the first six months of 2025.
Please give name and date of this “far right violence”.

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The thing to note is the dates.

[BFW]

For the left, it’s all about the hate....................................................

All we have to do is look at the news, pick a channel, it’s there every
hour, every day, every week, **LIBERALS, THE LEFT HATES**, **LIBERALS,
THE LEFT HATES** America, **LIBERALS, THE LEFT HATES** the American
people, **LIBERALS, THE LEFT HATE** our families, **LIBERALS, THE LEFT
HATE** our kids, **LIBERALS, THE LEFT** even hate our pets.

The dehumanizing verbal attacks, threats of murder and other foul acts,
destruction of property, aid and abetting criminals, physical assaults,
lies, character assassination.

It’s OK to hate it, it’s not human, It’s OK to demonize it, it’s not
human, It’s OK to brutalize it, it’s not human, It’s OK to kill it, it’s
not human.

That’s why a left wing furry loving psychopath shot Charlie Kirk.

The democrats, progressives, liberals, democratic socialists have only
one common denominator and that is HATE.

The facts show it, the truth shows it, recent and past history shows it.

The democrats are the new fascists ...and now they are flirting with
socialism, the political version of ‘bugchasing’.

~~~

Houston house decorates for Halloween with Mexican man standing next to
two executed Trump supporters under a mexican flag on US soil.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4342860/posts

Houston house decorates for Halloween with Mexican man standing next to
two executed Trump supporters

https://notthebee.com/article/halloween-decorations-in-houston-show-
mexican-man-standing-next-to-two-individuals-with-maga-hats-swinging-
from-the-gallows

The hate continues unabated.

[SaveFerris]

Adios wrote “Left-wing terrorism”??

Let me look out of the windows 🪟🪟🪟
for Flying Pigs 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖

[fortes fortuna juvat]

You can credit Obama’s and Biden’s weaponized anti-American judiciary for that grim reality!