In July, Secretary Rubio hosted a Ministerial on the Resurgence of Far Left Political Terrorism. His remarks were prescient and timely: “Far-left political terrorism 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.  It 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.  It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time.  They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist.  But the fundamental character is always the same.  It’s always the same.  It is 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.  Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us… For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization is an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be.  So they choose instead to destroy.  They attack pipelines; they attack railroads; they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement.  This is the nature of the terrorism we face today.  They despise the West because the West is great.  This is an international conference because we are facing an international – we are facing a transnational threat.  These are not distinct and isolated cells.  They are interconnected networks.  They do not recognize our borders.  They do not believe, in fact, in the nation state itself.  They coordinate, they communicate, they travel, they train, and they act together, sharing the same infrastructure, sharing the same enemies, sharing the same mission.  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, moving through underground networks of safe houses and finance, and sustain their operations through transnational funds.”