https://apnews.com/article/political-violence-trump-biden-pelosi-assassination-c4423ed88df6f4b3557aa11e798f855dWASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of a conservative think tank on Thursday misrepresented partisan differences in political violence in the United States, wrongly suggesting that people associated with left-wing causes commit more violence than those on the right.___HERITAGE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT KEVIN ROBERTS: “Most political violence in the last 25 years has been initiated by the left.”THE FACTS: Roberts’ remarks came in response to questions about comments earlier this month in which he said the country was in the midst of “the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”He told reporters Thursday that he considers himself a historian of the American Revolution and that his comments about a second revolution were a reference to “ambitious policy plans” that Republicans have should former President Donald Trump win the 2024 election. Roberts’ organization has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the federal government known as Project 2025.Roberts said his comments about political violence were meant to be seen in the historical context.A deeper look at the available evidence, however, shows that right-wing groups have committed more acts of political violence in recent U.S. history.Two years ago a team of researchers from four universities examined court records and other data relating to 3,500 extremists active in the U.S. between 1948 and 2022. The individuals were split into three groups — left wing, right wing and relating to Islamic extremism. While some in the database had committed violent acts, others had raised money for extremist groups, volunteered or spoken out in favor of them.Right-wing extremists were just as likely to commit violent acts as those motivated by Islamic extremism, the researchers found. Left-wing extremists were a distant third.
Gary LaFree, a University of Maryland professor and one of the co-authors of the research, said violent acts by left-wing groups have been diminishing for decades following violence by radical groups like the Weather Underground, a far-left militant organization founded in 1969.In recent years, violence by right-wing groups has far outpaced violence by left-wing groups, said LaFree, the founding director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, which studies extremism and political violence.“There are very few left-wing cases these days,” LaFree said. Increasingly, he said, many of those responsible for political violence espouse “muddled ideologies” combining a rejection of authority with conservative views, for instance, or supposed anarchists who say they also support authoritarianism. “Or they don’t have a strong ideological commitment at all,” LaFree added.Questions about political violence and its place in American democracy are getting renewed attention following Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, a Republican. Some Trump supporters, including Trump running mate JD Vance, have blamed Democratic rhetoric for the shooting.The attempt on Trump’s life, however, is just the latest in several cases of violence committed against elected officials over more than a decade.Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was gravely wounded in a 2011 shooting outside an Arizona grocery store, had been threatened and windows of her congressional offices in Tucson knocked out after she voted in favor of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform. Although a motive for the shooting was never determined.
Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, now House majority leader, was shot in 2017 while practicing for a charity baseball game. His assailant was described as having grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan was the target of a foiled kidnapping plot uncovered in 2020.In 2022, a man broke into the San Francisco home of then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and bludgeoned her husband, fracturing his skull. Last year, a man with a history of mental illness went to the Fairfax, Virginia, district office of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, looking to kill him with a baseball bat. Connolly wasn’t there, so the man attacked two staffers.The largest single act of political violence in recent years is the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, when a mob of Trump supporters fought with police, vandalized the Capitol and sought to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential win.Trump’s own incendiary words and his baseless lies about the 2020 election were blamed for encouraging the Jan. 6 attack, as well as other violent acts by supporters. Trump also mocked the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, 80.Years of surveys have consistently shown that Americans from both political parties strongly oppose political violence, according to Sean Westwood, a Dartmouth College political scientist who directs the Polarization Research Lab.People typically overstate the violent intentions of those with different ideologies, too, Westwood said, with one party believing the other is far more willing to commit violence to further their political agenda. That’s one reason why it’s so important for leaders from both parties to come together to call for unity and peaceful discourse, Westwood said.“Americans hate violence,” Westwood said. “Even the most polarized don’t support partisan violence.”
>>1317223>“There are very few left-wing cases these days,” LaFree said.Antifa has been rioting in liberal hubs, on an annual basis, for the last ten years.BLM was responsible for the largest race riots in American history. Daily reminder that commies hate fascism because fascism directly solves the problem of communism.
>>1317222>picture crying about "fascists" being against """"academics"""">article is an academic blatantly lyingKek. Keep telling yourselves that 2020 was just peaceful protesting
>>1317274>>1317283t. far right indoctrination victim
>>1317284This
>>1317222because the left keep pretending everyone and everyone is just doing their own thing and not part of a group but find the most deranged mentally ill person and claim he represents everyone on the right.Take accountability and get fucked you criminal scum. Libshits deserve to go to jail for life. They're still in denial that antifa as an ideological group exists.
>>1317319Stats don't lie. the Far right is responsible for a majority of violence
>>1317350the stats don't categorize the shit the left do. You're also objectively a terrorist now so prepare for prison
>>1317222>...in the U.S. between 1948 and 2022.>examples of groups supporting right-wing ideology included the Ku Klux Klan and the National Alliance;>and examples of groups supporting left-wing ideology included the Animal Liberation Front and the Weather Underground.This is a list of nearly 100% Democrats.Anyway, this is bunk trash. The doj has it's own information regarding this data:https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-preliminaryIt uses raw numbers and left wingers outpace even islam.But unlike fake news AP, most people already expected that.
>>1317359The data also stopped at 2017 per the source.And shit like BLM riots wasn't included.
>>1317352Facts don't care about your feelings, the facts shows the fascists right is responsible for vast amount of violence.
>>1317359>https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-preliminary>It uses raw numbers and left wingers outpace even islam.Bro you're reading that stacked area chart wrong. How embarrassing for you.
>>1317370Nope.
>>1317373Keep deluding yourself then. Here it is in a different format.https://www.slatt.org/Documents/Resources/Profiles%20of%20Individual%20Radicalization%20in%20the%20United%20States%20(PIRUS).pdf
>>1317367nice alternate facts. libshits don't get to make up definitions
>>1317274Fascism and communism are cut from the same cloth, collectivism. It doesn't matter whether the group you are sacrificed for is your race or the worker's class. It's still unjust.
>>1317398Alternative facts are what we call lies. Which is what you cling too.
>“There are very few left-wing cases these days,”
Whole fucking year of Burn Loot Murder, but that doesn't count right?
>>1317491Floyd Equity Protests were a healthcare emergency that was more important than COVID. It was more important to protest against cop racism than stop the spread.
>>1317487coming from a blown who doesn't classify BLM as a leftist group. your opinion is worthless clown you'll be imprisoned and violently analed
>>1317571Can you get any more ESL?
>>1317222>The largest single act of political violence in recent years is the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, when a mob of Trump supporters fought with police, vandalized the Capitol and sought to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential win.lmao no. 20 people died in the blm riots.
>>1317761Boogaloo and Trump false flags you mean.
>>1317768jewish false flags you mean
>>1317757you are a terrorist
>>1317844Stop projecting
>>1317780So Trump.
>>1317956>>1317768>DRRRRRUUUUUMMMPHHHHHHHHH
>>1317961Donald J. Trump
>>1317962Donald J. Fart
>>1318010Rumple J. Jiggydumpa.
>>1317962Tronald J. Dump
>>1317571>BLM as a leftist groupit's the same semantics they do with Antifa>ummm BLM isn't a "group" it's a movementand of course it's a leftist movement, but they ignore that part>>1317367>>1317350>>1317352the "experts" don't count the BLM murders because the killers were never arrested, so ACKSHUALLY we don't know if the killer was a leftist, even though BLM was celebrating some of those murders (such as when CHAZ killed a black teenager)>>1317284>>1317297>stupid rightwingers are so indoctrinated!>anyway let me tell you more about how Jan 6th was so much more violent and deadly than the Summer of Love!>>1318042>who isn't a communistindocrinated NPCs love to say shit like "Antifa means anti-fascist so if you're against antifa it means you're a fascist!" and ignore that the actual original Antifa were oppressive communists who said anybody who wasn't a communist is a "fascist"
let me translate the post above me"but, what about antifa"
>>1318074>NPCs: Right-wingers are the most violent (but only if we ignore antifa, BLM, and other leftwing terrorists)>non-NPCs: Okay but what if we don't ignore them?>NPCs: REEEEEEEEE no you can't bring up the fact that leftists are actually responsible for more violence and terrorism!imagine being this indoctrinated where you shrug off the proof that you're being lied to because you would rather keep believing the lie.
meltdown hours i see
Violence is justified if it brings about a Holy Monarch and saves America. Onward Christian soldiers.
>>1317222Every antifascist is either a tranny or a Jew (sometimes both)
>>1318073>blm isn't a leftist movementyou can't be this stupidso much gaslighting you deserve the next 4 years when trump imprisons you and throws you into a furnace the world will laugh npc cunt.
>>1318092nerd
>>1318121charcoal
>>1317224nothing about this is factual. this is pure interpretation of events.
