You might think we're witnessing the most violent period of domestic political terrorism in American history.

I did until I learned about the 1970s.

Sure, I'd learned about Vietnam protests, inflation, and bell bottoms,

but our high school history books really memory hold the worst parts.

Between 1970 and 1979, America suffered over 1,400 terrorist incidents that killed 184 people,

injured hundreds more, and caused millions of dollars in damage. By 1975, bombs were going off at a rate of

50 to 60 per year, ramping up to nearly 100 attacks annually by 1979. Targets included the U.S.

Capitol, the Pentagon, LaGuardia Airport, police stations, banks, and corporate offices.

Looking back on those days, a Nixon aide remarked, if you didn't experience it back then,

you would have no idea how close we were as a country to revolution. But it's been mostly

forgotten. Why? Because the terrorists regrouped, rebranded, and won the long game.

What we're seeing today isn't something new. It's the same movement.

The bombers of the 1970s became the architects of today's permission structures for political violence.

They call the 1970s the revolution that failed.

It turns out they're wrong, and here's why what's coming could be worse.

In the early 1970s, bomb attacks and gunfights became a regular part of America's political landscape.

The Weather Underground became the most famous of over a dozen subversive groups during that time,

and its name became synonymous with violent revolutionary aspirations.

The Underground was a spin-off of the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS,

a white youth protest group that arose in the 1960s,

a decade also marked by profound political unrest, and the high-profile assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin

Luther King, Jr. Their heroes weren't George Washington or even Nathan Hale. They worshipped

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