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In May, the Trump administration released a 16-page strategy <\/span>memo<\/span> outlining what it called the most significant terrorist threats facing the nation. Authored by the recently appointed senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, it drew a distinction between three categories: Narco-terrorism, Islamic terrorism and left-wing terrorism. Since Gorka himself has ties to <\/span>a far-right group<\/span> in Hungary, perhaps it was to be expected that the document neglected to mention the right-wing violence that has plagued the United States for the last decade or more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a significant omission in a memo that was long on hyperbole and short on strategy, and offered little more than a call for aggressive, violent action against terrorism. As ProPublica <\/span>reported<\/span>,<\/span> in other contexts Gorka has described \u201cU.S. operations turning suspected terrorists into \u2018red mist\u2019 and stacking bodies \u2018like cordwood.\u2019\u201d He has also sported a lanyard with the letters \u201cWWFY & WWKY,\u201d which stands for \u201cWe will find you and we will kill you.\u201d Obviously, Gorka, who was<\/span> fired from the White House<\/span> in Donald Trump\u2019s first term but was allowed to return to the fold in the second, is a very serious and sober person \u2014 a first-rate choice to head counterterrorism efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising that the report, if you want to call it that, would name narco-terrorists and Islamic terrorism. Those are perennial threats named in reports by both Democratic and Republican administrations. But the focus on left-wing terrorism is new. And now the Trump administration, led by Secretary of State \u2014\u00a0and likely 2028 presidential candidate \u2014\u00a0Marco Rubio is leading the charge to take the far-left terror crusade global.<\/span><\/p>\n

Left-wing terrorism hasn\u2019t been a focus until now for good reason. As TIME <\/span> in September,<\/span> \u201cIn the last five years, 81 people have been killed by political violence in the United States. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, some 54%, according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-wingers for 22%.\u201d Going back to 1975, excluding the 9\/11 attacks, right-wing terrorism has accounted for 63% of deaths from political violence, while only 10% came from the left.<\/span><\/p>\n

Colin Clark, the director of the Soufan Center, a nonprofit that focuses on foreign policy and terrorism, pointed out in an <\/span>interview<\/span> with PBS that the term \u201cnarco-terrorism\u201d is a misnomer. Cartels and drug gangs are motivated by profits, not ideology, which is what defines the term. Not that the groups aren\u2019t a threat, but they require a different approach \u2014 although the report\u2019s emphasis on \u201ckinetic\u201d (violent) response is currently being enacted in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, where the military is wantonly murdering people in small boats without evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say there hasn\u2019t been an uptick in left-wing violence in the last few years. But as Clark points out, \u201cany time you have a rise in the far right, you\u2019re going to have a rise in the far left. But, on balance and in aggregate, far-right terrorism still poses a far more significant threat than the far left does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, this report wasn\u2019t the first in Trump\u2019s second administration to order a new focus on alleged left-wing violence. In the wake of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination in September, Trump issued a <\/span>presidential memorandum<\/span> titled \u201cCountering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence\u201d that ordered a \u201cnational strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence.\u201d These included \u201canti-Christianity,\u201d \u201cextremism on migration, race, and gender,\u201d and \u201chostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality\u201d which has \u201ccreated a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes.\u201d (One could easily say that the points about \u201cextremism on migration, race, and gender\u201d and violence for political gain are better applied to that right, but that\u2019s another story.)<\/span><\/p>\n

After Gorka released his own strategy memo that isn\u2019t really a strategy, he said, \u201cWe see a threat, we will respond to it, and we will crush it, whether it is the cartels, the jihadists, or violent left-wing extremists like antifa and like the transgender killers, the non-binary, the left-wing radicals who killed my friend Charlie Kirk.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lest you think this is all just another onanistic show for the MAGA cult, the administration is working overtime to enlist foreign countries in its effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lest you think this is all just another onanistic show for the MAGA cult, the administration is working overtime to enlist foreign countries in its effort. In late May, the State Department held a meeting in The Hague that brought together counterterrorism officials from Europe and elsewhere, and it was not well-received. <\/span>According to the Washington Post<\/span>, many of the invitees\u2019 view was \u201cwe don\u2019t see it quite the way you do.\u201d They are rightly more concerned with the rise of right-wing violence as seen in the anti-Muslim attacks that were <\/span>recently on display in Northern Ireland<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Undeterred by this rejection of the administration\u2019s provincial obsession with their own domestic enemies, Rubio, reported the Post, has invited leaders from more than 60 countries to discuss the \u201cresurgence of transnational far-left terrorism\u201d this week \u2014\u00a0 and his international counterparts are once again unimpressed, as are domestic and foreign terrorism experts. (Even some Trump officials worry that \u201ca Gavin Newsom administration\u201d will turn these tactics on the right.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAntifa\u201d is just not a thing, but apparently, the Trump administration is determined to pretend it is so they can designate the group a transnational terrorist organization and use the extra-constitutional methods they have applied to Islamic terrorism \u2014 and, presumably, the kill order they are currently using in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against alleged narco-terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can see the outlines of how this will be handled in the <\/span>recent case<\/span> of protesters and vandals involved in an action against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas. One group member who had been convicted of terrorist activities, among other charges, was given a 100-year sentence for attempted murder for wounding a police officer. The others got sentences of 30 to 70 years for \u201cspray-painting anti-police graffiti, slashing tires, destroying a surveillance camera, and setting off fireworks at the building.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some might find it odd that Rubio, allegedly the last grown-up standing in the Trump administration, would jump on this bandwagon. Not only is it unconstitutional, it\u2019s also flagrantly authoritarian. The secretary is supposedly planning to run as the \u201csane\u201d candidate against Vice President JD Vance in 2028, and this has to be one of the <\/span>least<\/span><\/i> sane of Stephen Miller\u2019s initiatives. The fact that Rubio is leading the charge here says very clearly that when Donald Trump is finally shuffled off the stage, his insane brand of politics isn\u2019t going anywhere. <\/span><\/p>\n

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