{"id":2631798,"date":"2026-07-18T16:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-goes-viral-as-millions-watch-share-his-rousing-speech-on-the-evils-of-the-modern-left\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:22","slug":"rubio-goes-viral-as-millions-watch-share-his-rousing-speech-on-the-evils-of-the-modern-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-goes-viral-as-millions-watch-share-his-rousing-speech-on-the-evils-of-the-modern-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Goes Viral as Millions Watch, Share His Rousing Speech on the Evils of the Modern Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frubio-goes-viral-as-millions-watch-share-his-rousing-speech-on-the-evils-of-the-modern-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2631798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided content appears to be a webpage fragment that includes a section discussing political terrorism, with a focus on left-wing extremism. It features statements from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, highlighting concerns about left-wing violence being underestimated or mischaracterized by the media and academia. Rubio emphasizes that left-wing terrorism has historically been meaningful, citing data from the 1970s and recent events such as attempts on presidential figures and the killing of activist Charlie kirk.He condemns radical leftism as a destructive force driven by resentment, hatred, and a desire to dismantle societal achievements. Rubio also criticizes communism as an ideology that envisions a bleak, godless, and unremarkable world.The article underscores the importance of international cooperation to combat this global threat, emphasizing that terrorists can operate across borders. Additional webpage elements include scripts,ads,and forms for user interaction.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Left-wing extremists are a major terrorist threat to a world that too often looks upon them as patriots, not terrorists, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a conference on political terrorism, Rubio said that while the world must remain on guard against Islamic jihadis, \u201cextremist violence from the political left\u201d remains \u201ctreated as a right-wing fever dream\u201d by the media and academia, according to a text of his comments posted on the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/07\/remarks-at-the-opening-of-the-ministerial-on-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said that according to the media, \u201cA bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil. It is. But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary \u2014 well, that\u2019s just merely a tragic excess of idealism. Perhaps its means were misplaced or overzealous, but its ends were virtuous and just. That\u2019s the implication of how they treat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SECRETARY RUBIO: \u201cThis is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3t75pzaSRE\">pic.twitter.com\/3t75pzaSRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of State (@StateDept) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StateDept\/status\/2077753532409647185?\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rubio fumed that \u201cso many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the George Floyd-inspired riots of 2020, \u201cLeft-wing violence was not just excused; it was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar-left political terrorism is not a recent-day, modern novelty. It is not a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians. For most of the modern era, it was, in fact, the dominant form of political violence,\u201d he said, reminding his audience that \u201cbetween 1970 and 1980, 93 percent of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio noted that in 2026, \u201cwe face a new wave of this old evil\u201d that includes \u201cmultiple assassination attempts on a sitting president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students,\u201d Rubio said, referring to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>Radical leftism, Rubio said, \u201cis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In speaking of communism, Rubio noted, \u201cOne of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That\u2019s actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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 \u2014 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, I convened leaders from around the world for a ministerial meeting on the resurgence of political terrorism\u2014driven by a rising tide of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-bars-us-ambassador-over-failure-to-address-activist-death\/\" title=\"France bars US ambassador over failure to address activist death\">violent left-wing extremism<\/a>. Together, we must rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat the new wave of this old evil. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SfIMKk84hs\">pic.twitter.com\/SfIMKk84hs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecRubio\/status\/2077815445067837853?\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rubio noted that left-wing extremists have a global reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s far-left terrorists can raise money in one country; they can host their communications in a second country; they can receive training in a third country; they can recruit militants in a fourth country, and then together strike a target in a fifth country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, we have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is easy to destroy great things; it is far more difficult to make them. The enemies of civilization are only capable of the former. They are only capable of destroying great things. All they know is destruction. But we have built great things together. We have done it time and again. 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