Update. The report the #Trump #DOJ just took down was originally released in June 2024, during the #Biden administration. But the Biden National Institute of Justice (#NIJ) wasn't the only research org to conclude that most domestic terrorism in the US is from the right wing.
The conservative #CatoInstitute (@cato) reaffirmed that conclusion last week.
According to Cato research, there were 620 politically-motivated murders in the US in the last half-century. 391 were from the right and 65 from the left. (The rest were from Islamism, separatism, or other ideologies.) Politically-motivated right-wing murder is more than 6x as frequent as politically-motivated left-wing murder.
These numbers do not count the deaths from the 9/11 attacks because they were not domestic terrorism.
See the numbers in the Cato Institute report from last week …
https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states
… or in this graphic from Time Magazine based on Cato data:
https://time.com/7317383/political-violence-america-trump-crackdown-right/
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