Once a Terrorist
The Legacy of Marxist Terror: How the Left’s Violent Rhetoric Threatens Today The violent rhetoric emanating from the American Left in 2025, epitomized by the assassinations of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione and conservative activist Charlie Kirk by Tyler Robinson, is not a spontaneous outbreak but a direct descendant of the revolutionary Marxist terror glorified during the late 1960s and 1970s. Figures such as Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur), Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and the Weather Underground, whose heinous crimes were reframed as acts of liberation, have been romanticized by progressive institutions, elected officials, and media gatekeepers. This glorification, bolstered…