'Idiocracy': Trump Aide Mocked For Sharing Graph on Far-Left Versus Far-Right Violence

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 29th, 2025, 3:55 pm



Screenshot via Axios

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson sparked a bevy of mockery over the weekend when she shared a graph from Axios highlighting the increase of left-wing violence this year, but that also showed the long-running trend of right-wing violence far outpacing all other types. Jackson shared the Axios article and wrote, “Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high.”

The Axios article began by noting, “Halfway through 2025, attacks by far-left extremists outpaced far-right violence for the first time in more than three decades, according to new research from the Center for Strategic & International Studies.” The report added:

Why it matters: America’s domestic terrorism landscape has undergone a remarkable inversion since President Trump took office, as his policies have eased grievances on the far right while intensifying anger on the far left.

Far-right violence has historically been more frequent and more lethal, but plunged dramatically over the first six months of 2025.

Critics were quick to blast Jackson on X. Independent journalist Arieh Kovler shared her post and noted, “The White House Deputy Press Secretary looked at this graph and thought ‘those grey bars are totally fine, everyone will understand that only the yellow ones are a problem.’”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/idiocracy-trump-aide-mocked-for-sharing-graph-on-far-left-versus-far-right-violence/

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The White House Deputy Press Secretary looked at this graph and thought "those grey bars are totally fine, everyone will understand that only the yellow ones are a problem".
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1:35 PM · Sep 28, 2025

[Be Leave On]

1. question the axios study

The "Center for Strategic & International Studies" study quoted by Axios saying left leaning violence has spiked sounds suspicious, maybe even invented, to me.

[chia]

2. Now do values for 2025 through September.

[Aimee in OKC]

4. A more nuanced analysis from the CSIS source, through July 2025

https://www.csis.org/analysis/ideological-trends-us-terrorism
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They also make the distinction that left-wing violence is far less lethal than right-wing violence.

[Old Crank]

6. Seems they didn't graph

Kirk and this past weekend. That would put the bars even.

Any data on what is considered violence?

[Irish_Dem]

3. Don't they start teaching kids how to read bar graphs in 2nd or 3rd grade?

[Ford_Prefect]

5. THIS CHART DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE CSIS STUDY. It is a distorted version by AXIOS to support their headline

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based on a somewhat different chart (Figure 3 in the CSIS report). https://www.csis.org/analysis/left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-united-states-what-data-tells-us
[Link edited to correct errant punctuation]

The opening remark of the report reads: In recent years, the United States has seen an increase in the number of left-wing terrorism attacks and plots, although such violence has risen from very low levels and remains much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by right-wing and jihadist attackers.

Another chart in the CSIS report points out in clear terms the real difference in scale between Left and Right (Figure 4 in the SCIS report).

The MAGA world considers anyone calling them fascist to be a terrorist. It has never acknowledged the verbal or literal violence of its own adherents to be terror as such. It is always excused as 1st amendment expression like the January 6 assault on Congress.

I suspect that previous FBI reports on domestic terror identifying RW extremist groups as the major threat would strongly disagree with the AXIOS chart presentation.

IMO any remarks to the effect of a 2025 fall off in RW terror are a result of the change in FBI leadership, and political influence on how RW terror is reported and pursued, rather than the facts as we can observe them.

[werdna]

7. When I click on the link you provided -

- I get PAGE NOT FOUND. just fyi.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Here is a working link (yours has a "period" at the end of the URL)

https://www.csis.org/analysis/left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-united-states-what-data-tells-us

The graph (apparently from Axios) looks like it is a flip of the CSIS one, which has the RW instances on the top vs on the bottom, and removing the other categories so they just have LW vs RW.

Here is the CSIS one -

[IbogaProject]

9. Ethnonationalist is mostly white supremacists

And Jihadists might as well be GOP, anti women's rights, antiabortion etc.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Well I think that those smaller categories might be referencing "international" origin types

vs "RW" and "LW" which appear to be referencing "domestic".

But I was basically pointing out that Axios apparently took the CSIS data and generated their own graph with just 2 categories, and flipped the RW & LW data on their plot as a reverse of how CSIS did theirs.

[FakeNoose]

14. Nobody has noticed that the red bars dominate (almost) every year since 1994?

I mean, with only one or two exceptions, the right/conservative/GOP groups have been the main instigators of terrorism in the US.

[travelingthrulife]

10. Abigail is lying for Jesus! I doubt there was any left wing action this year.

These monsters are just attributing the stuff MAGA does to liberals.

[RussBLib]

12. It's automatic

...before any evidence exists, right-wingers just automatically claim "left-wing radicals" for the assaults. Totally irresponsible. Totally predictable.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Bob_in_VA]

13. It's useful to see what the "most in 30 years" means

From the CSIS report:

From 1994 through 2000, there was an average of 0.6 left-wing incidents annually; in the following decade, that figure doubled to 1.3 a year. Numbers began to grow substantially, however, in 2016, and from 2016 to 2024, they averaged 4.0 a year. Through July 4, 2025 (thus excluding the Kirk attack), there were five left-wing attacks or plots, which sets a trajectory for a record-breaking year in the last 30 years.

Another question - what does the killing of Charlie Kirk have to do with left wing violence? The Robinson kid certainly wasn't a lefty by any standards. Middle of the road at best. From what has come out so far, his act was personal, not political.

[BWdem4life]

15. It should be self-evident that a legitimate chart would not compare a partial year to prior full years

As it always takes time to accurately compile the data for the current year.

Otherwise, fuck Axios and fuck anyone unable to note the overall reality.

[Martin68]

16. Fake "data" in that last bar.