Excerpt from an important speech made by Secretary of State Rubio at a recent conference regarding left-wing terrorism:
“. . . .This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.
It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good.
It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can.
This is what radical leftism is.
It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist. But the fundamental character is always the same. It’s always the same.
It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world.
Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us.
The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong; none of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite.
One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.
That’s actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory.
The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, grey, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul.
The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, without – a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things.
And the world communism envisions is a world without God.
For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization – for them it’s an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be.
So they choose instead to destroy.
They attack pipelines; they attack railroads; they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement.
This is the nature of the terrorism we face today.
They despise the West because the West is great. . . . .”
SECRETARY RUBIO: “This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself.” pic.twitter.com/3t75pzaSRE
— Department of State (@StateDept) July 16, 2026
SECRETARY RUBIO: This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself.
It is a revolt of the worst against the best; of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who…
— Dylan Johnson (@ASDylanJohnson) July 16, 2026
WATCH: Secretary Rubio hosts the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the State Department https://t.co/SOdR44EiaB
— Department of State (@StateDept) July 16, 2026
Also watch Stephen Miller’s speech at the 22:30 mark
.@StephenM: "Let's not pretend for a moment that these Radical Leftists — these terrorists — are operating from a place of sincere political conviction…
The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is… pic.twitter.com/fUJMWaMHHW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2026
“Let’s not pretend for a moment that these Radical Leftists — these terrorists — are operating from a place of sincere political conviction…
The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.
The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids, that goes to church every Sunday, and is filled with a feeling of inadequacy and jealousy — and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress, and to inflict pain and suffering.
It’s not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who are assembled — to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They’re all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerisms…
Their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred.”
STEPHEN MILLER: "Left-wing terrorism always ends in bloodshed, misery, and suffering. It only can travel in one direction. There is no point at which the left-wing terrorist is satisfied with his gains." pic.twitter.com/7kvbDiHQ32
— Department of State (@StateDept) July 16, 2026

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