For years, the left insisted that political violence was a right-wing problem. They said it after January 6th. They said it after every incident they could attach to a conservative. They said it while their cities burned in the summer of 2020, while federal courthouses were attacked, while Supreme Court justices needed body armor to go to work, while three separate attempts were made on the life of the President of the United States.
Marco Rubio just said enough.
Speaking at a State Department ministerial attended by roughly 65 foreign delegations Wednesday, the Secretary of State delivered one of the most direct assessments of far-left political violence ever delivered by a senior American official on the world stage. He called it what it is — terrorism — and demanded international cooperation to crush it.
“A poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice.” That’s Rubio’s description of radical leftism, and it’s accurate to the point of being painful. The language of equity and social justice has provided cover for an escalating campaign of arson, rioting, targeted attacks on law enforcement, and assassination attempts that the mainstream media has spent years refusing to label with the word it deserves.
The statistics back up every word Rubio said. Far-left terrorist attacks and plots have risen to levels not seen in decades. This is not a talking point — it’s the documented assessment of the administration’s own counterterrorism analysis, and it tracks with everything law enforcement has been seeing on the ground since 2020.
The international dimension is critical and underreported. In July, coordinated firebomb attacks against members of Greece’s governing party killed a woman and injured four others. In January, arson against a Berlin power transmission facility knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of Germans — investigated by federal prosecutors as a suspected terrorist organization. Far-left extremist networks are coordinating across borders, sharing encrypted communications, training materials, financing, and safe houses — working, in some cases, alongside hostile foreign states.
And there’s a darker possibility that Rubio alluded to and history validates: the convergence of far-left and Islamist violence. The 1977 Lufthansa hijacking by the PFLP on behalf of the Baader-Meinhof Group wasn’t an anomaly — it was a proof of concept. When two movements share a hatred of Western civilization, the operational overlap becomes a matter of opportunity rather than ideology. “Queers for Palestine” signs are darkly comedic. Far-left and Islamist groups sharing financing and safe houses is not.
Rubio announced that additional foreign terrorist organization designations are coming, building on four far-left groups already designated in November 2025. He’s rebuilding the entire counterterrorism strategy to treat this threat with the seriousness it demands.
“It is time to crush this evil forever.”
He’s right. And the world now has 65 delegations on record as having heard him say so.
