Also, as with nearly every other study that compares "left wing" to "right wing" violence, this one suffers the same issues.
1.) The vast majority of "right wing" murders were not done as terrorist actions. Rather a member of a right wing group got into an argument or a drunken brawl and accidentally killed someone. Your own sourcing admits this (Quote from the Guardian article your article is based off of). When I went through your idiotic ADL list, I illustrated dozens of examples of this--like somehow it was a "white nationalist terror event" when some kid pulled a train emergency stop lever, and they found Main Kampf in his backpack when the cops got there (That was a literal example).
Stated political motives for violent attacks often overlap with other potential factors, including life crises, anger issues, a history of violent behavior and, in some cases, serious mental health conditions.
Yeah, most "right wing" murders in this country are idiot hicks shooting each other. If we counted black gang members who support black nationalist causes as "left wing" we'd have several thousand left wing murders. But we don't, the people who do these studies are always careful to disqualify based on motivation when it comes to left wing. And they can do this because idiots like you will never actually look at the methodology.
2.) Left wing people are just generally less competent. Once more, the article even admits this. The actual number of attacks has always been about equal, but the left ends up killing less and injuring/destroying more.
In several of the high-profile leftwing attacks included in the CSIS list the only fatality was the perpetrator. A mass shooting attack on a group of congressional Republicans during a baseball practice outside of Washington DC, in 2017 left the Republican congressman Steve Scalise seriously injured, and three other people shot.
The gunman, James Hodgkinson, 66, was the only one killed in the attack. Hodgkinson had deliberately targeted Republicans and had expressed disgust with Trump.
Many of the other leftwing attacks or plots in the CSIS database, including by anarchists, environmental groups and others, resulted in no deaths at all. Often, leftwing plots, particularly by animal rights activists, have targeted businesses or buildings, “and their primary weapons have been incendiaries designed to create fires or destroy infrastructure – not kill people,” said Jones, the researcher who led the creation of the data set.
Imagine having a high powered rifle on a fucking BASEBALL FIELD with no cover for anyone, and hunting a bunch of out of shape, old, fat Congressmen and being unable to kill one.
The left's incompetence is not a virtue, Scream. incompetent terrorism still sucks and costs enormous time and money. Cities are burning, fuck off with your false equivalence.