The administration says far-left actors accounted for 63% of recorded anti-government attacks or plots and three of four anti-government deaths in 2025.
The longer record tells a different story:
From 2016 through 2025, left-wing attacks killed 13 people. Right-wing attacks killed 112. Jihadist attacks killed 82.
One year shows a shift. Ten years shows the scale.
Yet the Trump administration is turning “the radical left” into a global terrorist category.
The State Department is coordinating foreign governments and restricting travel. Treasury is tracing nonprofits and funding networks. The White House promises to “eradicate a violent ideology.” Stephen Miller says people invoking civil liberties are lying to protect “enemies of civilization.”
We have seen this machinery before:
The Palmer Raids turned bombings into a crackdown on radicals.
McCarthyism turned beliefs and associations into evidence of disloyalty.
COINTELPRO mapped activists and organizations.
The War on Terror added financial surveillance and global reach.
The data measures violent actors.
The administration is targeting a political ecosystem.
That is how a reported one-year rise in violence becomes a modern Red Scare.
I don't agree with this whataboutism. Funding of far left terrorism is clearly occurring. Whether it is being done by domestic or foreign interests it is happening. It should be investigated and mitigated. We can disagree on the measures the government should take to do so but it is ridiculous to essentially say "well it's not so bad because crazy far right nutjobs and insane religious fundamentalists do worse".
That would be true if the government were applying the same standard to both sides. It is not.
The administration claims a global far-left funding network but names no donor, transaction, dollar amount, indictment or conviction proving it.
Meanwhile, Trump pardoned or commuted every January 6 defendant, including leaders convicted by juries of seditious conspiracy. His administration then weakened extremism prevention while omitting far-right violence from its 2026 counterterrorism strategy.
The data shows the imbalance: from 2016–2024, CSIS averaged 4 left-wing incidents a year versus 22.7 right-wing incidents. Over the past decade, left-wing attacks killed 13 people; right-wing attacks killed 112.
This is not “ignore the left.”
It is: do not pardon one violent movement, stop tracking it, then build a global counterterrorism system against the less lethal one.
That selective use of state power is what makes this a modern Red Scare.
The difference is right wing terrorism is typically carried out by one or a few nutjobs. There is no global terror financing network or state sponsored right wing terrorism happening in America.
That is plausible deniability, not a factual distinction.
The administration has produced no donor, transaction, indictment or conviction proving the “global far-left financing network” you are treating as established fact.
And the far right is not merely lone nutjobs. Juries convicted Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders of seditious conspiracy. Patriot Front can mobilize hundreds of uniformed members in the capital. U.S. intelligence has called white-supremacist extremists the domestic actors with the most persistent and concerning transnational connections.
The real difference is state treatment: Trump freed January 6 extremists, his DOJ moved to erase their convictions, Stewart Rhodes walked Capitol Hill and met a lawmaker, and the administration cut extremism-prevention programs while removing far-right violence from its counterterrorism strategy.
I am not alleging a secret government command structure.
I am describing state enablement through protection, access, impunity and selective blindness.
I will not confuse plausible deniability with neutrality.
Right so you are telling me the trucks with bricks in them just organically showed up at the BLM riots and antifa (which is purportedly is decentralized) self finances. There are no paid protestors at far left rallies right? Laughable.
Sure sure. I have a bridge to sell you Yermin.
You have moved from a global terrorist-financing network to two unrelated internet claims.
The 2020 “trucks of bricks” stories were investigated. The widely circulated pallets were construction materials or had already been there, not staged weapons for protesters.
And “paid protesters” is not the same as people paid to commit violence. Political groups on both sides pay organizers and fund travel. On the right, charter buses and rally logistics for January 6 are documented.
None of that proves terrorism financing.
Show the donor, payment, recipient and criminal act. Otherwise, this is insinuation, not evidence.
There is video of the trucks pulling up. There is also video of riot gear being dropped off to antifa protesters. Did they gofundme to buy hundreds of thousands worth of gear? You are being incredibly naiive. Clearly you have an extreme leftist bias so you are cool with it.
My point about the paid protestors is clearly their is a financing network. They are being paid by someone or some entity. The money for gear is coming from someone or some entity.
You are still turning inference into evidence.
A truck arriving or gear being distributed does not prove who funded it, who received it, or that anyone was paid to commit violence. “Someone must have paid” is not proof of a terrorist network.
And notice the bait-and-switch: you are describing protest logistics, not terrorism. The right-wing record includes mass shootings, bomb plots, vehicular attacks, assassinations and seditious conspiracy. Those are documented acts of political violence, not guesses drawn from a video of supplies.
You have offered suspicion and called it evidence. We have reached the end of this discussion.