Although captured media and online trolls have done their best to manipulate facts and massage statistics in an effort to claim that violence from the “right” has risen after Trump’s election, it seems that facts interfere with the narrative.
Their narrative is pretty simple. “Trump is a tyrant, and he’s caused a rise in violence by right-wing extremists.”
Do the facts fit that description? No.
Political violence is rising, but the violence is coming from the left. Following Trump’s election, and his vow to deport illegal aliens, and the concomitant enforcement of immigration laws, the left has swarmed ICE officers as they make arrests. The violence that followed has been spun into myth. In Los Angeles, local police have been pelted with rocks and bricks. ICE officers simply doing their jobs have been swarmed by thugs intent on violence and activists intent on causing a reaction. Although the left “experts” and pundits desperately wanted “right-wingers” to respond in kind, that hasn’t happened.
Within days of Trump’s election, and long before he raised his hand to take the oath, “experts” predicted a surge of violence – from the right:
“That legitimized, normalized and sort of gave permission to extremist groups — who are really white-supremacist and deeply misogynistic — to come out of the woodwork and feel validated,” said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who leads the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.
That was in November 2024. The fact that Miller-Idriss' ominous right-wing violence prediction as an “expert” didn’t happen was ignored.
Kyle Shideler with the Center for Security Policy had a different take. The Daily Caller spoke to him, and he said:
“No matter how many attacks were organized by jihadist terrorists or committed anarchists or communists, ‘Extremism’ was a problem to be found only on the political right, and specifically was the fault of their main political opponent’s rhetoric.”
“Whether Donald Trump won or lost, either result was taken as evidence for an increase in ‘Far Right’ extremism,” Shideler, who has a history of briefing law enforcement officials, told the DCNF. “Even a decrease in ‘hate groups’ could be identified as evidence of their growing power. Heads we win, tails you lose,” Shideler added, referencing media coverage of a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) report which claimed that extremist groups decreased in 2024 as their views “entered the mainstream.”
The SPLC is infamous for spinning nonsense and labeling anyone on the right as an “extremist.” SPLC included the Family Research Council on its list of “extremists.” The Family Research Center was the subject of an attack by a violent left-wing extremist in 2012. Five years later, CBS uncritically regurgitated SPLC claims that The Family Research Center was a "hate group."
When the left sees potential evidence of right-wing violence, it will jump on the story like a swarm of piranhas. In April, the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, was the target of a violent attack. The media quickly claimed it was right-wing violence. It was not. The attack was carried out by a pro-Palestinian socialist and leftist who targeted the Jewish governor because of his pro-Israel stance. The story soon disappeared.
“Murdering Trump” was one of the poll questions by the National Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers. Of those identifying as “left of center,” a majority agreed that killing Trump was a good idea. If the narrative were flipped and a poll of “right of center” people suggested that killing Obama was a good idea, that poll would be repeated, ad nauseum, until the end of time.
Leftist violence far outweighs violence by “right-wingers." In a twisted way, it makes sense. Leftists are constantly told by media talking heads that Trump is a “Nazi” or a "Fascist." Leftists listening to that day after day think that they are the equivalent of the French resistance during WWII. They are not.
Recall that the ICE raids at a Cannabis Farm in Camarillo resulted in the arrest of felons and illegal aliens – yet the violence was perpetrated by leftists. After those raids, a citizen who supported ICE was battered and thrown to the ground. That video was memory-holed by legacy media. It is below, but if you conduct a "Google search" looking for that story, the first page is about the illegal alien who fell off a roof.
The increase in violence against ICE agents is astounding – jumping 830 percent. Is that widely disseminated by MSNBC or CNN? No. What is disseminated is the canard that ICE is comprised of “masked thugs” and that ICE agents arresting felons and deporting illegal aliens is evidence of "right-wing violence."
“If ICE wasn’t kidnapping pregnant women and forcing miscarriages or deporting a poor Maryland Man, there would be no violence. If ICE didn’t exist, they wouldn’t be pelted with rocks. It’s all because of ICE!”
"Heads I win, tails you lose."
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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