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The Right-Wing Terrorism Miller and Rubio Conveniently Neglected to Mention at Their DC Summit

At their July event on “The Resurgence of Political Terrorism,” the secretary of state and the White House deputy chief of staff selectively presented information to malign the left.

People enter before US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers opening remarks during the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the State Department on July 16, 2026, in Washington, DC.

A couple weeks back, I wrote briefly about the stench of fascism that accompanied efforts by Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio, at the international security conference in Washington, DC, that they strong-armed representatives from dozens of countries from around the world into attending, to whip up a frenzy about left-wing political parties, movements, and individuals.

As I have traveled for the past two weeks around Argentina, a country filled with the ghosts of those who were tortured and disappeared during the 1976–83 dictatorship, the Miller-Rubio double-act has struck an ever-rawer nerve.

Both men gave a master class in selective presentation of information. They zeroed in on a few, admittedly horrifying, examples of recent political violence perpetrated by ideological left-wingers, while neglecting a slew of attacks around the world carried out by those with white nationalist or Christian nationalist worldviews, who were seemingly egged on by Donald Trump and his allies.

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There was mention of a 72-year-old Greek woman who was burned to death by “far-left and anarchist actors,” but no mention of the 2011 massacre of more than 70 people, mostly teenagers, killed by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik, whose theory of a Great Replacement destroying Western culture has been all but explicitly embraced by Miller. There was mention of assassination attempts against Trump, but no acknowledgement of the deadly neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, or at the US Capitol, no mention of the murder of the speaker of the Minnesota House by a right-wing fanatic, no mention of the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi’s husband, which the Trumps (senior and junior) subsequently mocked. Nor was there mention of the racist mobs, which many critics argue have been urged on by Elon Musk, that have, in recent months, burned asylum seekers out of their homes in one country after another in Europe. Going further back in time, there was mention of Cold War–era attacks in Europe by the Red Brigade, but no mention of the 85 people killed in a bombing of the Bologna train station in 1980 by Italian neofascists who likely had links to both NATO and the CIA. There was mention of academics and political leaders supposedly giving a nod and a wink to left-wing violence, but no mention of the assassinations, on US streets, of American citizens and undocumented residents by federal agents who have been promised immunity by Trump and others in the top echelons of American leadership.

These speeches were truly malignant, seeking to tar any-and-all-progressives with the vicious, bloody, legacy of some far-left movements from times past and places distant.

Marco Rubio’s cherry-picked reading of history demonstrated his extreme willingness to massage facts to fit a MAGA agenda. “Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day, modern........

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