While leftist politicians, activists, and media mouthpieces like to claim that it is the right that is violent, citing the so-called “insurrection” at the US Capitol on January 6. What the left ignores is the vast amount of violence undertaken by those on the political left, such as the 2020 “summer of love,” up to the more recent attack on everything Tesla. What leftists are doing is called “projecting,” or transferring their own attributes to others, in this case, the conservative right.
Research, however, clearly disputes the contention that violence comes from the right or is even embraced by the right. Research conducted jointly by Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI (which tracks digital threats), confirms that fact, according to the New American.
In the study, titled “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence,” Rugers and NCRI post the following introduction:
“Political violence targeting figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk is becoming increasingly normalized, particularly among politically left-leaning segments of the population. Following the attempted assassination of President Trump on July 13, 2024, tolerance and even advocacy for such violence seem to have surged.
This trend builds on a broader pattern identified in two December 2024 reports by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which analyzed how viral social media narratives are legitimizing political violence, especially after the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. These reports found widespread justification for lethal violence, including assassination, among younger, highly online, and ideologically left-aligned users. This online rhetoric is spilling into offline actions, as evidenced by a California ballot measure grimly named “the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act.”
Mangione is accused of the cold-blooded killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan on December 4, 2024, with Mangione becoming a cult hero among the political left.
The introduction continued:
“A broader ‘assassination culture’ seems to be emerging within extreme left segments of the U.S. public, with targets now including prominent figures like Trump and Musk. NCRI’s empirical assessments, using original survey data and open-source intelligence analysis, reveal how normalized and justified violence against the administration has become in public discourse, signaling a significant threat to political stability and public safety.”
The numbers are staggering. NCRI “surveyed 1264 U.S. residents, balanced to reflect Census data on race/ethnicity, gender, age, and education,” the group wrote. It provided some key data points as follows:
- Murder justification: 31% and 38% of respondents said it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.
- The above was largely driven by respondents who self-identified as left of center, with 48% and 55% at least somewhat justifying the murder of Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively, which indicates significantly higher justification for violence against both.
- Property Destruction: Nearly 40% of respondents (39.8%) stated it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest.
- Psychological/Ideological Correlations with Assassination Culture: These beliefs are highly correlated with one another, as well as with the justification of the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and hyper-partisan left-wing ideology.
- This suggests that support for violence is part of a broader assassination culture, underpinned by psychological and ideological factors.
- Online Amplification of Radical Ideation: [left-wing social media site] BlueSky plays a significant and predictive role in amplifying radical ideation.
- Users are increasingly associating the “memeification” of Luigi Mangione with calls for political violence against Musk, Trump, and others, reflecting the growing cyber-social presence of assassination culture.
As the New American reports, embracing violence by the radical left is nothing new, tracing back to the French Revolution, where the “Reign of Terror” claimed thousands of victims via the guillotine. It continued with Marxists in the USSR, China, Cambodia, and elsewhere, who killed approximately 100 million people.
The United States has seen its fair share of left-wing violence as well, including from groups such as the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, FALN, and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
As mentioned above, leftists have one event and one event only to point to for right-wing violence…January 6. As a reminder, the only person killed at the US Capitol on January 6 was unarmed military veteran Ashli Babbitt, gunned down by US Capitol police officer Michael Byrd. The overwhelming majority of those arrested on January 6 were for non-violent offenses.
What the left ignores is that in the summer before January 6, over 600 BLM and Antifa-inspired riots took place in cities nationwide, resulting in billions of dollars in damage, thousands of police officers injured, and scores killed.
The difference between the right and the left is that, generally, most conservatives do not defend those who committed violent acts on January 6, 2021, but rather condemn them. What conservatives do complain about is the zeal with which the FBI and the Department of Justice pursued even the most minor of J6 offenders. However, since J6 is all liberals have, they, along with their complicit media, attempt to compare the Capitol siege to occasions such as the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, and September 11, which is absurd.
The New American piece explains that the significant difference between the political left and the political right is that both sides have completely different moral and emotional foundations.
“While everyone is flawed, American conservatives tend to be more virtuous. In contrast, ‘lefitsm’ is not so much an ideology as it is a process: movement toward moral disorder. And since it is defined by a lack of virtue, it attracts low-virtue people.”
Leftists also attempt to conflate speech and violence, with some academics insisting that certain types of speech can be “violence,” while at other times claiming that “silence is violence.” By so doing, the left attempts to demonize certain words and the reluctance to say others.
Look at the violent protests on college campuses nationwide, particularly at Ivy League schools in the northeastern United States. Leftists have tried to rationalize these protests as “exercising free speech,” and since speech can be violence, as noted above, the left therefore has the right to use violence.
The left has also suddenly fallen in love with the Constitution, which up until five minutes ago they claimed was a “racist document written by White slaveholders.” When the administration attempts to deport illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act, they wail about “due process,” with most having no understanding of what the Alien Enemies Act is (other than what leftist talking heads have told them) or what due process entails.
The New American mentions French Revolution author Maximilien Robespierre, a staunch anti-death penalty zealot…until he had the power to apply it. Today, the same leftists who preach about due process by a margin of 71% want to create a special law to put Elon Musk in prison.
Look at the case of Karmelo Anthony, a black 17-year-old Texas teen who stabbed another 17-year-old, Austin Metcalf, who is white, to death in what started as a minor dispute. Anthony’s crowdfunding site raised over $500 million. Anthony has become a cause célèbre for the far left with many rabid leftists claiming he used “self-defense” in using a knife to stab Metcalf, who was unarmed, in the heart.
The Ten Commandments, which provide a moral guidepost for man, tell us in the Sixth Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
When you don’t have a moral compass, as a majority of rabid leftists do not, it is easy to justify murder or assassination if it meets your political ends.
Laws of man, including our own Bill of Rights, are based on natural law as written in the Ten Commandments, the Word of God. When you don’t believe in natural law, disobeying the laws of man is easy.
As the New American writes, “‘There is no one as illiberal as a liberal’--and no one as regressive as a progressive.”
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