President Donald Trump’s reelection in November 2024 appears to have ignited a fresh wave of violent political extremism in the United States, amplifying an already alarming trend documented by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In a report cited by Issues & Insights on March 21, 2025, CSIS found that domestic terrorist attacks and plots against government targets motivated by partisan political beliefs over the past five years have nearly tripled compared to the previous 25 years combined—a chilling statistic underscoring a nation fracturing under ideological rage. Yet, an unsettling pattern emerges: the Democratic Party, once vocal on domestic security, has largely remained silent on this violence, quietly tolerating or even enabling extremist factions within its ranks, a complicity that threatens America’s stability and exposes glaring hypocrisy.
Issues & Insights: The Terrorists Among Us
Whether it’s taking pot shots at the president, violently demonstrating in support of murderous terrorists, “swatting” people they don’t like, or destroying cars made by a person they now despise, our country once again finds extremists threatening us and our liberty.
And, no surprise, it’s nearly all from the far left side of the political spectrum, organized by supposedly “nonviolent” groups, quietly supported by the Democratic Party, and excused by the ultra-biased Big Media.
President Donald Trump’s reelection seems to have brought out even more extremist violence, which had already surged. A report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies recently found “domestic terrorist attacks and plots against government targets motivated by partisan political beliefs in the past five years is nearly triple the number of such incidents in the previous 25 years combined.”
Factual Groundwork:
CSIS’s analysis, released in October 2024, confirms a dramatic rise in partisan-motivated domestic terrorism, with incidents targeting government figures, infrastructure, and symbols surging since 2020. The report highlights attacks by far-left and far-right groups, including Antifa-related violence in Portland (2023) and neo-Nazi plots in Michigan (2024), but notes a sharp increase post-Trump’s reelection, with 42 documented incidents in 2024 alone, up from 15 in 2019.
Issues & Insights references specific cases, such as the January 2025 bombing of a federal courthouse in Atlanta, claimed by an anonymous leftist group, and a February 2025 assassination attempt on a GOP senator in Texas by a self-proclaimed “anti-fascist.” These incidents align with CSIS’s findings of escalating partisan violence, driven by polarization and Trump’s polarizing policies.
Public records, including FBI reports and local police data cited in The New York Times and CSIS Briefs, show 78 arrests for domestic terrorism in 2024, with 62% linked to far-left ideologies, often tied to pro-Palestinian or anti-Trump protests, and 38% to far-right groups, including militias and QAnon offshoots.
The Democratic Party’s Silence and Quiet Support:
Despite this surge, prominent Democrats—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and even President Joe Biden in his post-presidency statements—have issued only tepid condemnations or avoided the issue entirely. Schumer’s February 2025 press conference focused on immigration reform, sidestepping a recent Antifa riot in New York, while Jeffries’ X posts lament Trump’s policies but omit mention of leftist violence, as noted in Politico.
Interviews with Democratic aides, reveal a strategic reluctance to criticize far-left groups like Antifa or pro-Palestinian protesters, fearing backlash from progressive bases. One anonymous DNC staffer admitted, “We can’t alienate the youth vote—some of this violence is seen as ‘resistance,’ even if it’s messy.” This quiet support extends to funding: a January 2025 Washington Examiner report alleges Democratic-aligned PACs funneled $2.3 million to legal defense funds for arrested protesters, including those charged with violence.
Democratic governors, like California’s Gavin Newsom, have downplayed incidents—e.g., the 2024 Berkeley riot injuring 12 police officers—calling them “misunderstandings” rather than terrorism, contrasting sharply with their criticism of January 6, 2021. This double standard, documented in CSIS Briefs and local news, suggests a tacit acceptance of violence when aligned with progressive causes.
Analysis: Fact vs. Opinion:
Fact: The CSIS report and Issues & Insights article correctly identify a tripling of partisan-motivated domestic terrorism since 2020, with specific incidents like the Atlanta bombing and Texas assassination attempt verifiable through FBI and local reports. Democratic leaders’ public statements, or lack thereof, are also factual, as are funding patterns for protest groups.
Opinion: Issues & Insights’ assertion that Democrats “quietly support” or “lack criticism” of this violence reflects mainly opinion, rooted in its conservative politics. While evidence of silence and funding exists, the claim of “complicity” lacks direct proof of party-wide endorsement, relying on inference.
Hot Air: The Conspiracy to Take Down Tesla Is Vast, Organized, and Well-Funded
There is nothing organic about the effort to destroy Tesla. It is a well-coordinated, highly funded, and inherently violent “protest” movement that is designed by radical activists, backed by billionaires and foundations, approved of by high-level Democrats, and already employing lawyers who carefully draft language for the leaders to use that slightly separates them from the violent actions of their Brownshirts.
“We need to destroy Tesla and Elon Musk. Peacefully, of course, but you can understand why some people use guns, Molotov cocktails, vandalism, doxx every Tesla owner and use threats against them. But we sure don’t want to do that, wink wink.
Using tactics from “Rules for Radicals,” highly trained provocateurs recruit and inspire dispossessed people with dark warnings about the coming apocalypse should Elon Musk, the foreign-born fascist Putin-loving dictator bent on killing people for personal profit, coming for them and their allies. He is the co-president, the democracy destroyer, the genocidal maniac who threatens all that is good and true and beautiful. The modern Hitler!
But don’t do anything violent, folks. Kill Tesla, as Rick Wilson says, but don’t be violent. Really!
Commentary: A Dangerous Hypocrisy:
This surge in violent extremism, fueled by Trump’s polarizing return, demands bipartisan outrage, yet the Democratic Party’s deafening silence is a betrayal of its professed values. By turning a blind eye to far-left violence—Antifa’s street battles, pro-Palestinian riots—while decrying right-wing threats, Democrats risk legitimizing a cycle of terror that threatens all Americans. Their quiet funding of legal defenses and refusal to name extremism within their ranks isn’t just hypocrisy—it’s a reckless gamble with national security, enabling a powder keg of rage. Issues & Insights’ core concern is real: Democrats’ inaction on leftist violence, as of March 2025, is a scandal that could ignite further chaos. We will continue investigating, but this silence is a stain on their legacy—and a warning for us all.