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Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise

For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.

By Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe - The Atlantic

No matter how hard ideologues try to exclusively blame their political foes for acts of political violence, the truth is that 
violent extremists today emerge from across the political spectrum. We have studied this problem and believe that our data can help 
illuminate an issue too often defined by partisan finger-pointing. As part of a study to be published this week by the Center for 
Strategic and International Studies, we compiled and analyzed a data set of 750 attacks and plots in the United States from January 
1,1994, to July 4,2025. Our research focuses only on incidents of terrorism, which we define as attacks or plots by a nonstate 
actor attempting to achieve a political end and exert a psychological influence on a broad population. Among other details, the 
data set includes the types of weapons used, the intended targets, the number of fatalities, and the ideology of the perpetrators.

We found that left-wing terrorism has increased since President Donald Trump's rise to political prominence in 2016. Indeed, 2025 
marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber those from the far right. Despite its recent increase, 
however, left-wing terrorism is not nearly as common today as it was in the 1960s and early '70s. Those years marked the height of 
groups such as the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army, best known for kidnapping the newspaper heiress Patty 
Hearst. In the '80s and early '90s, left-wing terrorism declined while jihadist and right-wing terrorism rose, particularly in the 
forms of anti-government and white-supremacist violence.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/charlie-kirk-left-wing-terrorism/684323/

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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."