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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.

“So many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of 
violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression, so 
long as they served a left-wing cause,” Rubio said in opening remarks. “A 
bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was ‘a nefarious and murderous act of 
evil.’ It is, but a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary; well, that’s 
just merely a tragic excess of idealism.”

A report published last year by the Center for Strategic and International 
Studies found that left-wing terrorism attacks as of July 4, 2025, had 
surpassed those from the far right for the first time in more than 30 
years. However, a closer look at the data reveals that the uptick reflects 
a very low starting level and a concurrent drop on the far right.
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There was an average of 0.6 left-wing incidents annually from 1994 through 
2000, compared with an average of 20.6 on the right, the report shows. From 
2016 to 2024, there were an average of four per year on the left and 22.7 
per year on the right. Those numbers had dropped dramatically on the right 
as of early July 2025, with only one incident. Meanwhile, there had been 
five from the left.

But the report’s authors note that right-wing terrorism could easily return 
to elevated levels and that it is important to fight terrorism on both 
sides of the political spectrum.

President Donald Trump and his allies have prioritized talking points 
against the far left ahead of the congressional elections this November. 
Trump has repeatedly stated that the Democratic Party’s ascendant left are 
communists who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of 
life” and even engage in assassinations.

Vice President JD Vance has similarly called out communism as a political 
shift that is “something we haven’t seen in the U.S.” House Speaker Mike 
Johnson has decried “radical candidates” who are “self-described, self-
identifying Marxists.”

For Rubio, his worldview on this issue has been largely shaped by his own 
history: he is the son of Cuban immigrants who arrived in Miami in May 
1956, a few years before communist leader Fidel Castro rose to power in 
Havana. The former Florida senator said Thursday that it was that same 
government’s sprawling intelligence and ideological network that “helped to 
build the far left in our country and in our hemisphere.”

Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and main architect of the 
administration’s immigration policy, followed Rubio’s remarks, aiming to 
drive home the immediacy of the perceived threats he saw to American 
institutions coming from the left, and what response is needed in return.

“If your civilization is your home, you must defend it with the same 
passion and force as if an enemy intruder is inside your own house where 
your family lives,” Miller said. “That is the level of dedication and 
urgency that is required.”

This ideological focus has repeatedly conflated democratic socialism — 
which often centers on securing universal healthcare, higher taxes on the 
wealthy and stricter corporate regulation — with communism, under which 
private ownership is largely eliminated.

It has only intensified in the last year, following the election of 
democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to become New York City mayor and 
several of his proteges who won their New York City congressional primaries 
last month, beating out incumbents.

One of the ways the administration has started to target left-wing efforts 
is through sanctions. In November, the State Department designated four 
antifa or anti-fascist groups in Europe as foreign terrorist organizations. 
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in his remarks Thursday that 
targeting these groups and entities’ financial networks is the best way to 
circumvent their efforts.

“We have spent decades developing the world’s most sophisticated financial 
counterterrorism capabilities, and now we are mobilizing some of the same 
tools that we have deployed against terrorists abroad to confront this 
emerging threat here at home,” he told the conference.