In the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, some Democrats are citing questionable studies to lend credence to their claims that right-wing violence is more commonly occurring in the United States than violent crime committed by far-left ideologues.
These studies, which are rife with dubious data points, cherry-pick cases of political violence, misrepresent motives, and exclude key events — in effect, fudging the numbers and underplaying the prevalence of radical-left extremism in America.
Cato Institute study
For instance, Time magazine pounced on findings from a recent Cato Institute study, particularly a data table breaking down, by ideology, politically motivated murders between January 1975 and September 2025.
According to the dataset, right-aligned actors are responsible for six times the total number of deaths compared to perpetrators
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