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Left-Wing Political Violence Reaches Record High

With the Democratic Party out of power and the Left's dominance over American institutions facing severe challenges from the Trump 
administration, left-wing extremists have resorted to violence at rates unseen in decades, according to a new non-partisan study.

Left-wing terror plots and attacks, as a percentage of all terror plots and attacks, reached a record high in the first half of 
2025, according to a non-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies study released Thursday. If the trend persists, 
this year will see the highest number of left-wing terror plots and attacks on U.S. soil in more than three decades.

Leftist terrorism made up nearly 45 percent of all terrorism thus far in 2025, an increase of over 20 percent from last year.

Through July 4,2025 - a time period which excludes the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attack this week on the Dallas ICE 
facility - there have been five left-wing terror attacks and plots in the U.S.

Left-wing terrorist attacks in 2025 outnumber those committed by the far-right for the first time in 30 years, due both to the rise 
in left-wing violence and a decline in right-wing violence. The study - which relied on 750 terror attacks and plots from January 
1,1994 to July 4 of this year - came to that conclusion despite leaving out a significant number of leftist incidents due to its 
specific definition of terrorism and the time frame applied.

CSIS defines terrorism as "the deliberate use or threat of premeditated violence by nonstate actors with the intent to achieve 
political goals by creating a broad psychological impact." It connects leftist terrorism to a variety of ideologies including anti-
capitalism, anti-imperialism, black nationalism, LGBT ideology, environmentalism, animal rights, and socialist and communist 
viewpoints.

The ideological classification of perpetrators can be difficult and the incidents of terrorism measured in the study are not linked 
by the authors to mainstream views within the Democratic or Republican parties.
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All of the leftist terrorist attacks and plots measured in the study are attributed to either anti-government extremism or partisan 
extremism. Most leftist terrorist incidents since 2016 have been motivated by those two forms of extremism, with the exception of 
the surge of violent attacks against pro-life targets in summer 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The CSIS study comes two weeks after a left-wing gunman assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk in broad daylight during an 
event at Utah Valley University. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, texted his transgender roommate that he killed Kirk because he could 
no longer tolerate Kirk's "hatred," authorities revealed upon charging him. Robinson became more political in recent years, 
especially with supporting LGBT causes, after growing up in a conservative Utah household.

Another notable act of violence left out of the CSIS study is transgender gunman Robin Westman's mass shooting at Annunciation 
Catholic School in Minnesota. Westman killed two Catholic children and wounded numerous others by shooting through the window of 
the Catholic church affiliated with the school. Westman carried out the attack during mass and deliberately targeted the parish. 
His YouTube videos and manifesto showed Westman's anti-Christian viewpoints and

Additionally, the CSIS study excludes leftist violence against Tesla vehicles and facilities to protest billionaire Elon Musk. 
Those attacks are classified as cases of economic vandalism rather than terrorism. Similarly, the study excludes three high-profile 
anti-Israel terrorist attacks, the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's (D) home, the shooting that killed two 
Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., and the firebombing attack on peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado. 
All of those incidents are categorized as ethno-nationalist violence rather than leftist terrorism. Militant opposition to the U.S. 
role in supporting Israel's war in Gaza is typically a leftist position, but not exclusively.

Likewise, CSIS's research leaves out violent leftist demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities because 
the level of violence does not reach the study's definition of terrorism. Leftists have regularly committed acts of violence 
against ICE agents throughout the year. The anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles over the summer were the most prominent demonstration of 
leftist violence against ICE.

Earlier this week, an anti-ICE gunman attacked a Dallas ICE facility, killing at least one detainee and injuring two others. 
Authorities said the gunman used an app that tracked ICE activity and sought to cause "real terror" among agents. The shooting 
happened days after a suspect opened fire at an ABC station in Sacramento, California to protest the network's since-reversed 
decision to drop late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show. The shooter had a note in his vehicle with criticism of Trump 
administration officials and an apparent reference to the Kirk assassination.

In the wake of Kirk's death, the Trump administration has promised to crackdown on leftist domestic terrorism. President Trump 
signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization because of its violent, anarchist activities.

Trump's Justice Department is in the process of investigating leftist billionaire George Soros's philanthropic empire for its role 
in funding violent left-wing activist groups. Soros's network, the Open Society Foundations, have adamantly denied funding domestic 
terrorism and accused the Trump administration of conducting politically motivated attacks.


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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."