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E390. Why Left-Wing Violence Is a Suppressed History | Noah Rothman - Walk-Ins Welcome

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Bridget sits down with Noah Rothman, senior editor at National Review and author of Blood And Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, to trace the long, suppressed history of radical left-wing political violence in the United States — from the anarchist bombings of the 1920s to the Weather Underground to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Noah argues that this history isn't obscure, it's deliberately buried, and that the same patterns driving today's wave of violence have shown ...

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0:00.0

I'm back with Noah Rothman, everybody.

0:02.0

Welcome back to Walkins. Welcome.

0:04.2

Good to see you.

0:06.1

Howdy. Thank you for having me.

0:08.4

Oh, no. I was just like thinking while I was getting ready to talk to you.

0:13.0

Is there any going back to the way things were?

0:17.1

Like, are we all irreparably damaged from the last decade?

0:21.7

Like, yeah. So is that the point at which we're calling things normal 10 years ago?

0:26.8

Because I don't know. I mean, your book is interesting because you, you, well, let's talk

0:32.6

about what your newest book is. Tell us about your new book.

0:36.2

Okay. So this book is an attempt for me to answer a

0:39.9

question that arises with disturbing regularity. Why is it that in the aftermath of an obvious

0:44.9

or confirmed act of left-wing political violence, do we all start talking about the

0:49.7

preternaturally violent right and the threat posed by right wing violence, that reflex

0:55.3

is really annoying. And it's increasingly flies in the face of the evidence of your own eyes.

1:00.5

Yes. We have attack after attack, assaults on right wing figures, attempted assassinations,

1:06.2

not once, not twice, but thrice of the president to say nothing of the successful assassinations

1:09.7

of right wing in figures and attacks on them, ice facilities, including small cell terrorism,

1:16.2

deploying sophisticated ambush tactics on and on and on. That reflex has become a defense

1:22.8

mechanism in my view. Yeah, I've written about this actually coming from the left.

1:28.8

And I wrote about it after Charlie Kirk was assassinated for Spectator.

1:34.1

I'm much more simplistic than you.

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