Despite Trump’s claims, decades of research prove that far-right extremists, not progressives, are overwhelmingly responsible for U.S. political violence.
The latest attack on an ICE facility in Dallas offers the Trump administration another opportunity to scapegoat the left and they're working overtime. The sheer glee Kash Patel exhibits when sharing images of "anti-ICE" bullets alone makes it pretty clear the administration and its surrogates will push, push, and push some more until they can get enough of a reaction to warrant an even fiercer crackdown and implementation of a police state.
When JD Vance hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast just days after Kirk was killed, he attacked those he referred to as “the lunatics in American politics" and said without any evidence that the suspect in Kirk's killing was motivated by far-left ideology. We're seeing that behavior replicated now in response to the Dallas shooting even though journalist Ken Klippenstein reported here on Substack that even the shooter's friends had trouble understanding their ideology: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive
Adding to this, a University of Maryland study confirmed that members of the far-right committed more acts of political violence since 1948 than any members of the far-left: https://www.start.umd.edu/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus-keshif
The latest attack on an ICE facility in Dallas offers the Trump administration another opportunity to scapegoat the left and they're working overtime. The sheer glee Kash Patel exhibits when sharing images of "anti-ICE" bullets alone makes it pretty clear the administration and its surrogates will push, push, and push some more until they can get enough of a reaction to warrant an even fiercer crackdown and implementation of a police state.
When JD Vance hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast just days after Kirk was killed, he attacked those he referred to as “the lunatics in American politics" and said without any evidence that the suspect in Kirk's killing was motivated by far-left ideology. We're seeing that behavior replicated now in response to the Dallas shooting even though journalist Ken Klippenstein reported here on Substack that even the shooter's friends had trouble understanding their ideology: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive