Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not mince words during an international gathering on political terrorism, calling the rise of leftist extremism a “new wave” of an “old evil.”Speaking at the State Department’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism on Thursday, the secretary addressed officials and experts from 67 countries on the threat of antifa and similar organizations around the world that perpetuate ideological violence and “work alongside hostile foreign states.”“Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other’s attacks. To funnel propaganda and training materials and target information through shared encrypted channels,” Rubio said. “Moving through underground networks of safehouses and finance that sustain their operations through transnational funds.”
He told the crowd: “You’re here because your political leaders are being attacked and stabbed and shot in your streets. Because your businesses have been bombed. Because your railways have been sabotaged. Because your police officers have been beaten and burned. You are here because this is real, and it is getting worse, and it can no longer be denied, and it can no longer be ignored. It is time to crush this evil forever.”
