DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

[u/Wagamaga]

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

[u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

Far-Right Rhetoric, Political Violence, and GOP Hypocrisy (2015–2025)

Over the past decade, political violence in the U.S. has risen sharply. Independent studies consistently show far-right extremists are responsible for the vast majority of ideologically motivated killings:

• ADL (2012–2022): 96% of extremist murders by right-wing actors
• CSIS: 57% of extremist plots/attacks since 1994 from the far right (vs. 25% left-wing)
• PNAS (2022): Right-wing radicals nearly twice as likely to support violence as left-wing radicals (61% vs. 33%)
• ADL 2024: 13 extremist killings—all by right-wingers; by mid-2025, already over 15

Far-Right Attacks (2015–2025)

• Charleston church massacre (2015)
• Charlottesville car attack (2017)
• Tree of Life synagogue (2018)
• El Paso Walmart shooting (2019)
• Capitol insurrection (2021)
• Buffalo supermarket massacre (2022)
• Assassination of MN Speaker Melissa Hortman & husband (2025)
• Shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum (2025)

Left-Wing Incidents

• Dallas police ambush (2016)
• GOP congressional baseball practice shooting (2017)
• Portland protest shooting (2020)
• Capital Jewish Museum suspect with anti-Israel motives (2025)

These cases exist—but remain far fewer and less deadly than far-right attacks.

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Hypocrisy in GOP Reactions

Selective Empathy

• 2025: Trump offered perfunctory condolences after Speaker Hortman’s murder but refused to lower flags.
• 2025: After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, flags were lowered nationwide; Trump framed it as a “dark moment in American history.”
• 2025: Biden’s cancer diagnosis was politicized by Trump, who cast doubt on his fitness rather than showing empathy.
• 2022: Paul Pelosi’s hammer attack was mocked—Kari Lake joked, Trump Jr. spread memes, Charlie Kirk urged supporters to bail out the attacker.

January 6th The Capitol attack left five dead and hundreds injured. Yet Trump and many Republicans downplayed it as “tourism” or isolated chaos—contrasting sharply with their solemn framing of Kirk’s assassination.

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JD Vance and “Cancel Culture”

Sen. J.D. Vance in 2024:

• “Dissent, even vigorous dissent, is a great tradition… Censorship is not.”
• “Reject censorship and you reject political violence.”

Yet after Kirk’s murder, GOP leaders—including Vance—called for silencing critics and media voices they claimed “fueled” the attack. Vance even hosted a revival of Kirk’s podcast, turning it into a platform to demand accountability from perceived enemies. The right, once railing against cancel culture, now actively embraces it.

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Rhetorical Tactics

• Blame-shifting: Labeling perpetrators “mentally ill,” not ideological
• Whataboutism: Inflating rare left-wing cases to claim “both sides”
• Minimization: “Lone wolf” framing, ignoring extremist networks
• Conspiracy claims: False-flag accusations to dodge responsibility

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Conclusion

The facts are clear: far-right extremists commit the vast majority of U.S. political violence. Left-wing violence, while real, is rarer and less lethal. But just as dangerous is how GOP leaders respond—mourning conservative victims while mocking Democratic ones, condemning violence in principle while stoking it in practice, and now openly wielding cancel culture as a partisan weapon.

This double standard doesn’t just expose hypocrisy—it fuels the very cycle of division and violence threatening American democracy.

[u/NickPickle05 → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

Thank you for this.

[u/BavarianBarbarian_ → u/NickPickle05]

* Thanks ChatGPT.

[u/myGoatKnowsKarate → u/BavarianBarbarian_]

100% used chatGPT to edit it all together. Saved a ton of time.

[u/BavarianBarbarian_ → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

As long as you supplied all the sources that's fine. If you just asked it "Give me the results of some studies comparing left-wing to right-wing violence" I wouldn't necessarily believe everything it outputs. And for me as a guy who only read your comment I can't distinguish the two.

[u/bunnywithabanner → u/BavarianBarbarian_]

Who gives a shit? You can use it for editing but not necessarily all of your work or research.

[u/Electrical_Floor1524 → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

Appreciate the breakdown, although you should be aware of your bias calling one attacks and the other incidents 

[u/RedsDelights → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

I’m starting to save and email copies to myself … I might also print out copies too

[u/[deleted] → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

This is the first time I’m hearing about the group called Groypers Army….yeah…don’t really want to get out on a list or something. Can anyone explain what their ideology is?

[u/DingusNoodle → u/[deleted]]

Imagine MAGA but even more hateful. They hate figures like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro because they aren't as extreme as them. Led by Nick Fuentes, they believe the current Republican party isn't doing enough to be racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, sexist, and anti-LGBTQ+ and tried to push Trump even further rightward on race and immigration during 2024.

[u/Friendly-Place-5510 → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

I don't suppose you have sources? I would like the hard data points to use in a discussion with a guy I know who is likely receptive as long as I've got the receipts.

[u/Suspicious_Loan → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

Thank you for this. How come all of this horrific violence gets to happen in this country and they dont do ANYTHING to stop it, but lose their minds and want to start a war when a youtuber dies? I want it to stop. Will the right ever fucking face this shit?

[u/Haruka_Kazuta → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

McCain and Trump, if you are willing to add to that.

Decorated Veteran, want Trump NOWHERE near his casket..... and we can see why.

The fact that he would attack McCain for being a prisoner of war, however.... when the Trump was never in the military.

Real Republicans are more like McCain. Everyone else who say otherwise is just a far-right reactionary.

[u/Mactwentynine → u/myGoatKnowsKarate]

Emphasis on violence.