Batya Ungar-Sargon on X - "An example of how they cook the books to absolve the Left of violence in the WSJ today: A graph it published that seems to show near parity between Left and Right wing political violence is sourced to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which by its own admission reclassified pro-Palestinian violence as "ethnonationalist". It classifies all antisemitism as Right-wing, and all pro-Palestinian "attacks on Jewish individuals or institutions" as "ethnonationalist." This is just nakedly partisan propaganda presented as "data" and then mainstreamed in the American press."
Debunking the Data That Claims to Show Most Political Violence Comes From the Right - "The Right points to the assassination attempts on the President, the murder of Charlie Kirk, the rise of Islamist terrorism, the rabid violence of the George Floyd riots, the elevation of political violence fan Hasan Piker to celebrity status in the Democratic Party, and the recent polling showing that the more liberal a person is, the more likely they are to support political violence. On the Left, people point to January 6 as well as data purporting to show that most political violence comes from the Right. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, The Economist ran a piece claiming to explain “what the data show,” which suggested that most political violence was a Right-wing phenomenon. Other publications cited studies from the Center for Strategic & International Studies or the CATO Institute. The problem is, the “data” that these outlets have been relying on is deeply flawed. One of the major sources is the Prosecution Project, an initiative of the University of Cincinnati, which analyzes felony criminal cases involving political violence and sorts them by ideology. “The project examines criminal complaints, indictments and court records, looking for crimes that seek ‘a socio-political change or to communicate’ to outside audiences,” per The Economist. “Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers.” Yet if you pull up the data center yourself, you can see immediately that it is deeply flawed. The data set doesn’t include either of the previous two assassination attempts on President Trump’s life, as far as I can tell; a search for the time frame and the names of the would-be assassins turns up zero hits. Nor does it include the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The data set is based on prosecutions, which might explain the absence of Thomas Crooks, who died at Butler. But what explains the absence of Trump’s other would-be assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, or Tyler Robinson, who killed Charlie Kirk? I couldn’t find Elias Rodriguez on the list either, who shot and killed two people outside the Jewish Museum in D.C. in May of 2025 to protest the war in Gaza. It’s pretty easy to say that the violence is coming overwhelmingly from the Right if you overwhelmingly edit out any political violence from the Left. The editing goes deep. During the summer of 2020, the George Floyd riots were in full swing. Political violence claimed the lives of dozens of Americans and caused $2 billion in property damage. Yet the data set from the Prosecution Project lists a grand total of five incidents “left wing” incidents that summer, two of them “eco-animal focused,” meaning it counts just three incidents of left-wing violence during that time. Compare this to a list compiled by Forbes of 19 people who lost their lives during the first 14 days of George Floyd riots. Why don’t these people merit a mention in the Prosecution Project? They were killed during a politically motivated explosion of violence and rioting. These were, to cite the Project’s own criteria, “crimes that seek ‘a socio-political change or to communicate’ to outside audiences.” Yet they do not appear in the dataset. Surely we can all agree that their omission massively skews the data. Maybe you think that people murdered during political riots shouldn’t count as victims of political violence. But what about a meth dealer who happens to belong to the Aryan Brotherhood? Should their meth dealing count as political violence? The Prosecution Project thinks so! Among the Right-wing examples it makes sure to include, you’ll find an Aryan Brotherhood meth gang that merited 10 entries for drug-related crimes. I’m no fan of the Aryan Brotherhood, but can you honestly say this is an example of Right-wing political violence? In what world does producing meth constitute “crimes that seek ‘a socio-political change or to communicate’ to outside audiences”? You can also find people on the list who did things like vandalize an LGBTQ crosswalk—though not people who vandalized entire neighborhoods in 2020 in the name of racial justice. Is vandalism political violence? I guess only if you’re conservative. The Prosecution Project also counts every time and every person who blocked access to an abortion clinic. You may not agree with blocking access to an abortion clinic, but a tally of political violence that counts those instances and not Charlie Kirk’s assassination is deeply, deeply flawed. And amidst a historic rise in massive political violence against ICE agents, the data set records a grand total of six cases of left-wing violence for the first year of Trump’s second term. I couldn’t find a complete dataset for the CSIS graphs, yet in their methodology, they note some glaring absences. For starters, the information it cites is culled from data provided by the ADL, which “uses public records such as media reports and police filings to reach their numbers,” and the Southern Poverty Law Center—the same organization that was just indicted for actually manufacturing the racist violence it was “chronicling.” Needless to say, if you are relying on the media, wildly skewed to favor the Left, for your data set, it’s not data; it’s propaganda. Moreover, even when acknowledging that left-wing political violence is on the rise, CSIS admits it went out of its way to absolve the Left of even more violence. In a recent report, it excluded pro-Palestinian terrorism from the Left, reclassifying it as “ethnonationalist incidents rather than left-wing ones,” despite the Palestinian cause becoming the most important litmus test for belonging on the Left these days. This is just a naked attempt to absolve the Left of a signature issue because that issue inspires violence and the people tallying up the crimes want the Left to win. The report also excluded the massive anti-Tesla terrorism of last year, and it refused to include any of the anti-ICE political violence across the nation we saw over the last year, arguing that these incidents “did not reach a level of violence” that satisfied their criteria. I just don’t understand that. It is a textbook example of trying to change politics through acts of violence."
Every time someone does a deep dive into the data that purports to show that right wing violence exceeds left wing violence, he finds it to be fatally flawed. Rubbish, in short. What a coincidence that it all pushes the left wing agenda
We Don't Have a Political Violence Problem in America. We Have a Left-Wing Political Violence Problem in America - "25% of very liberal Americans consider political violence justified—compared to 3% of very conservative Americans. Another 17% of liberal Americans say it’s justified, compared to just 6% of conservatives. The more liberal you get, the more likely you are to justify political violence, whereas the opposite is true on the Right. Young conservatives are less likely to justify political violence than moderates, and half as likely as liberals overall. Is it any wonder, with influencers like Hasan Piker justifying the murder of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson in the pages of the New York Times, and Democrats clamoring over themselves to appear on his podcast?... A widely circulated Economist poll failed to cite a single instance of violence from the Black Lives Matter riots, and meanwhile counted any violence committed by people incarcerated and white as Right-wing violence, even when it occurred years later between family members. Democrats also cite the tragic case of Melissa Horton, the Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota who was killed, as proof of Right-wing violence targeting Left-wing politicians. But her killer, Vance Boelter, is obviously deranged; he claimed in a letter to the FBI that he was acting on the instructions of Democrat Tim Walz, who asked him to kill Horton—which is obviously not true but it is proof that he wasn’t motivated by Right-wing politics. Meanwhile, avowedly Left-wing political ideology was behind the murder of Charlie Kirk. It was behind the murder of Brian Thompson. It was behind most of the violent rioting and protesting we’ve seen over the last decade (including at Charlottesville!). It’s been behind three assassination attempts on the President. The Democrats and the media routinely call President Trump a fascist and a Nazi. They accuse him of being an authoritarian, a king. They accuse him of being a huge threat to democracy. This rhetoric has led to an embrace of political violence among their followers and consumers. And it’s got to stop. Other Democrats have blamed gun violence for the rise in political violence, which is of course ridiculous, given that conservatives are much more likely to own guns, yet much less likely to engage in and justify political violence. It’s time for the Left to take responsibility for the violence it is fomenting, justifying, and carrying out. Cole Allen’s manifesto justifying his attempted murder of the President doesn’t read like the ravings of a lunatic. It sounds like the kind of rhetoric you hear every single day from Democrats and their media. They are radicalizing their side every single day, and refusing to take down the temperature."
Tyler on X - "At the Tommy Robinson rally, the left were heard chanting: "Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk." At the recent protests in Brighton, the left were heard chanting to Rhiannon Whyte's mother: "Your daughter deserved it." Today, the left are mocking Young Bob after he was violently assaulted in the street. Don't ever let a lefty tell you that you're a hater or a bigot or a thug. They are everything they accuse you of."
Erin Derham on X - "I have been screaming this for months. Their “data” doesn’t even list Charlie Kirk’s assassination as left-wing violence. Thank you Batya for the thorough research. What stands out the most?? The OMISSIONS of left-wing violence: Datasets ignore or undercount events like the 2020 George Floyd riots (dozens dead, ~$2B in damage, yet only ~3–5 incidents tallied as left-wing), BOTH prior assassination attempts on Trump, the m*rder of Charlie Kirk, pro-Palestinian shootings (Elias Rodriguez’s 2025 D.C. incident), anti-ICE attacks, and anti-Tesla actions. These are often reclassified as “ethnonationalist” or dismissed as insufficiently “political.” We cannot fix the problem until we identify the problem. If you are still identifying as someone on the left, you might want to stop. This has been the most widespread example of gaslighting in national history."
Meme - "I want you guys to think about this. The left has become so damn emotional they don't care if they keep encouraging violence against so called "Nazis" that it will inevitably lead to people from the other side attacking liberals including the minorities and trans people they claim to care so much about, their complete hatred of conservatives is enough for them to justify it. They would rather they themselves potentially get in the process or their friends and family then stop promoting political violence against conservatives even if it's for simple self preservation and nothing more. They're that emotionally fucking stunted and stupid and if it did happen they would only further blame conservatives instead of having the basic common sense have of "I shouldn't have encouraged it even if I thought he was a terrible person because they make up half the fucking country and its gonna inevitably cause a civil war if most of my fellow leftists follows suit.""
Meme - Existential Comics: "If I woke up tomorrow and my boss told me that today at my job I had to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at people protesting racism because one of my coworkers killed someone in cold blood, I would simply quit that job and do something useful like stock grocery shelves."
Existential Comics (find me on bluesky): "It's good to riot in the face of oppressive, racist, State violence. What do you want, people to hold up signs showing their disapproval for a day and have it all forgotten in a week? That has never changed anything. Real resistance must have a real threat to power behind it."
Left wing violence is good. "Right wing" violence is bad
Robert Sterling on X - "25% of very liberal people say political violence can “sometimes be justified.” Among very conservative people it’s just 3%. In other words, the far left is 8x more likely to support political violence as the far right. Stop pretending this is a “both sides” problem. It’s not."
HowlingMutant on X - "If you think you can spend two months gloating over Charlie Kirk being shot, mocking his widow and kids, and then pivot back to “Look at how RUDE Trump is!”, you’re out of your fucking minds"
Mark Penn on X - "Shots fired. With shots fired at the bipartisan press dinner, maybe it’s time for the media and the politicians to stop platforming extreme influencers (like Hassan Piker or Candice Owens) preaching as Piker did the other day at the NYTimes “social murder” and trying to depict the most freedom-loving country on earth as an evil force to be taken down by violence and looting. Enough is enough."
Naturally, I saw left wingers claiming it was a false flag for the midterms, or that it didn't happen because there was no video (this was the same night)
Richard Hanania on X - ""I’m not saying my parents and their fellow lefty radicals were perfect — far from it." What a way for a NYT op-ed to describe the Weather Underground."
Clear proof that right wing violence is the real problem
Meme - Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok: "Slate quietly changed this headline where they threatened conservatives that they will be killed. The internet is forever. We know what they meant."
"Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now They Should Be."
"My Gun and Me"
Thread by @ArthurMacwaters on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ""They don't kill you because you're a nazi - they call you a nazi so they can kill you."
> 95 % of media coverage of ICE is negative
> anyone not far left is framed as "gestapo" "nazi" "lacking basic human empathy"
> now, 25% of very liberal people say violence can be justified to achieve political aims
This not a mistake, it is the direct result of propaganda. Extremists are highly susceptible to moral absolutes, and the media and politicians are giving it to them This is evil.
many examples of moderates or even moderate democrats being totally terrorized by people on the far left. I've heard direct stories of people getting death threats and having to get security based on *not being left enough* in their public statements or posts. this is not how America is supposed to work"
Meme - "The Atlantic. MAGA's War on Empathy. This crisis in Minneapolis reveals a deep moral rot at the heart of Trump's movement. By Hillary Rodham Clinton
VIOLENCE MUCH MORE ACCEPTED BY THE LEFT
"VERY LIBERAL" 25% - Yes, violence can sometimes be justified
"VERY CONSERVATIVE" 3% - Yes, violence can sometimes be justified
"Young people and Democrats were also more likely to say political violence is sometimes acceptable.""
Clearly, though left wingers are much much more supportive of violence, it's the right wing that's responsible for violence
All About Animation | Facebook - "I want to take a brief moment to talk about these two events that happened in Ontario California and Indianapolis Indiana. The man who allegedly set fire to his warehouse that refused to pay him and his fellow employees a living wage, and a City Councilman who voted yes for a data center despite his constituents telling him not to getting his house shot up. Good. For so long people have said "well violence isn't the answer." Really? Cause violence seems to be their answer against us every single time. You work here 40+ hours a week in one of the most expensive states in the union with shit healthcare or no healthcare. Your wife gets sick and she can't afford her medication under your insurance? That is violence. A councilman put a data center in your backyard polluting your air, contaminating your drinking water, giving your children asthma, and poisoning your land to shorten your lifespan. That is violence. You protest this. You organize and they call the cops to break up your protest and crack your skulls and you have no legal recourse? That is violence. So I say it's about fucking time these god damn ghouls get a taste of their own medicine. Luigi Mangione did nothing wrong. These people did nothing wrong. "An eye for an eye makes us all blind." Fuck. That. Shit. I hope these fucking ghouls get buried."
On the guy who committed arson in the toilet paper factory
Proof that the right wing supports and is responsible for violence, and we need to imprison the "far right" to keep people safe
When a murder becomes a musical: The Left's celebration of Luigi Mangione - "From nearly the moment Mangione was arrested, he was celebrated. Praise was quickly heaped on him by people who believe his alleged actions were justified. What’s more, they view him as a sort of martyr for the cause. To them, killing Thompson was necessary because of his work as a health insurance CEO. The healthcare industry as a whole is responsible for harm, and Thompson, as an executive in that field, was to blame... To make matters worse, a new musical comedy about Mangione is set to open the same month his trial starts. This is the kind of news that is unbelievable to decent human beings, no matter their political persuasion... I can’t imagine how Thompson’s family must feel. Not only did they experience the tragic loss of his life, but they have surely noticed the sheer glee from those who think Thompson had it coming. They have to prepare for the upcoming trial and media frenzy. And now, an entire stage production has been created making light of his murder. Certain moments reveal the health of a society. While the killing of Thompson was the action of one man, the rationalization and jubilation that followed reflect something broader. To say it’s deeply disturbing doesn’t go far enough. It treats human life as expendable based on nothing more than dislike. And in the case of Thompson, that dislike was solely based on guilt by association. His position in a certain industry earned him death in the mind of his accused killer. That warped perspective is shared by his accused killer’s fans. And now, audience members will watch and laugh at the story of Mangione. The internet helps to spread news of horrible events such as Thompson’s killing. Social media is also used to desensitize others to the horror surrounding his murder. Thompson becomes just a name representing bad healthcare or insurance outcomes. The further we get away from December 2024, and the more Mangione is lionized, the less anyone cares about the victim. Instead of recoiling at the flippancy, an entire production has been created. The goal is to cement Mangione as some misunderstood, only slightly bad hero. Thompson did nothing to these people to earn their rage. Yet, in his death, and with this mockery, he receives the brunt of it. We can expect the trial of Mangione to be a circus. Mangione’s youth, appearance, and growing fandom vault him to an undeserved status. His supporters have no problem if he is found guilty. In fact, many probably want that. He represents their own rage. And they idolize him for that. Even more troubling, a poll conducted less than two weeks after Thompson’s murder found that 41% of people under 30 considered the killing to be somewhat acceptable or completely acceptable. Mangione isn’t the first alleged killer to be treated like a celebrity. But the support for him should only belong to a shunned fringe. Instead, it’s an alarmingly large minority. And now there is a musical comedy. When an innocent man’s murder becomes lighthearted entertainment, something far deeper than one killing has gone wrong."
Clearly, right wingers are responsible for violence and we need to jail the whole of the "far right" to keep people safe
Matt Walsh on X - "I’ll never forget when the health insurance CEO was shot and killed in cold blood and I got ratioed to hell in the comments on YouTube because I said that I was opposed to it and it’s bad to commit murder. The celebration of Luigi Mangione was very much mainstream. It was in fact the more popular, more widely accepted position. I knew at that point that we’d crossed the rubicon."
Meme - Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog: "This was just one of thousands of comments along these lines. I was “dividing the poor and middle class” by saying that we shouldn’t murder people in the street."
@CopeAcidic: "If you watch this and don't realize that Walsh's whole purpose is to divide the class for the interests of the rich then idk what to tell you"
When left wingers accuse right wingers of "dividing us", this is what they mean: stopping random street murders of people left wingers disapprove of
Andy Ngo on X - "There is a crisis in the U.S. of far-left violent extremism. Significant numbers of leftist extremists believe they can assault people, kill people, carry out arson attacks and riot anytime and anywhere for their causes. “By any means necessary.”"
Meme - Adam Mockler @adammocklerr: "Political violence is not a "both-sides" problem. It's also not a fringe problem. It comes from the mainstream Right."
Adam Mockler @adam...: "If you're an unironic fan of Stephen Miller you should be taken out back and put down"
New York Post on X - "Alleged Palisades arsonist became 'fixated' with Luigi Mangione, started blaze 'out of resentment of the rich': prosecutors"
HowlingMutant on X - "Gee I wonder if this will be categorized as a left wing terrorist attack"
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Palisades Fire ends up being one of the most destructive acts of left wing terrorism in modern history. The arsonist Rinderknecht searched “free Luigi Mangione,” “let’s take down all the billionaires” and “let’s kill all the billionaires” before setting the Lachman Fire which ultimately ignored the Palisades conflagration. 12 killed, 6,800 homes destroyed"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This fire had nothing to do with "the complications of climate change," etc. A fucking left-wing terrorist set it. On the right and hard-center, we need to OWN the frame on crime, migration, welfare, and fraud. Enough of these endless "root causes" distractions. Who cares if it's .6% (I looked) more dry? WE CAUGHT THE ADULT MALE FELON WHO SET THE FIRE!!!"
State Department Severs Ties With Armed Queers-Affiliated NGO; Marxist Group Nukes Socials - "A State Department source confirmed to Blaze News that any ties to Utah Global Diplomacy, "which existed indirectly via an external implementer, are being completely severed and dismantled." As we reported earlier, Armed Queers SLC founder Ermiya Fanaeian had been recognized by the NGO... Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller announced an all-of-government approach to disrupt and dismantle "left-wing organizations that are promoting violence in this country."... "The revolution against the West spans thousands of organizations that may not be formally linked but are marching in unison toward the revolution.""
Cato Institute on X - "The risk of being killed in a politically motivated attack in the US is low, a Cato study shows. Excluding 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, most deaths come from right-wing attackers, followed by Islamists, and then left-wing attackers."
Justin DeBerry on X - "“Excluding the 2 deadliest terror attacks in American history, your not likely to be killed in a politically motivated attack.” Oh and also Cuban exiles killing each other counts as “right-wing terrorism.” CATO is a joke."
PoIiMath on X - "What is hugely embarrassing for @CatoInstitute is that this dataset has been debunked multiple times and they haven't even bothered to respond to the objections or make any changes to it. They know it's bad data, they just don't care"
