Rubio convenes countries on left-wing political violence

[Dulcinea]

(NPR) Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened leaders from more than 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration's latest effort to quell what it calls "left wing" political terrorism, a marquee issue for Republicans heading into the midterm elections.

This focus comes even as studies show that there are very few reported cases of such incidents in the U.S., especially compared to historically higher levels of far-right violence.

With sweeping statements about the "alarming rise" of political violence by the left, Rubio and other U.S. officials painted a dark image of the future if the "communists and Marxists" perpetrating these supposed acts are not defeated. He urged officials in attendance — mostly from European and Latin American countries — to unite to address the issue, which he says has been a "blind spot" in counterterrorism doctrine.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/g-s1-134148/rubio-convene-countries-on-left-wing-political-violence

[Lovie777]

1. Give it a break.................

Woke - through history, especially with RWer's ideology were the ones that caused violence, death and destruction. Even in the present times.

[Walleye]

2. Yes, and where does all the violent rhetoric come from now. Not the left.

[Biophilic]

3. Rubio is a very small, but sad sentence in our history.

He’s certainly not going to be a paragraph let alone the chapter that he so desperately wants.