Yeah, but Orange Man Bad!When it comes to talking about left-wing violence, you tend to pop up with this sort of equivocating. In a way, you're kind of like the guy who says "all lives matter" when the black lives matter thing pops up (with the understanding that the counter argument to "all lives matter" is -- according to the movement's proponents -- "yeah, and right now black folks are dealing with [racist murders, police killing blacks disproportionately with seeming impunity, etc. etc. etc.], and since that's an immediate concern maybe we ought to pay more attention there.").
McVeigh was nearly a generation ago, and the 80s bands like the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord are virtual unknowns today outside of those who've done some research into extremism in this country. Depending on how you want to count the bodies, I'm sure a case can be made that right wing extremists have killed a lot more people than left wing extremists (and I'm virtually certain that a well-reasoned counter argument to that can be made, and I highly doubt the left-vs-right score is settled science).
The guy who shot up the Congressional GOP baseball team wasn't a generation ago. That was three years ago. Neither was the guy who threw pipe bombs at the ICE facility. That was two years ago. But, at the top of the list, as with the BLM example, the immediate, probably-ought-to-be-the-top-of-the-triage-list problem is a group of leftist radicals who have been literally burning shit down for two and a half straight months with virtual impunity and tacit support from a mainstream political party and certain local governments populated by members of said party.
Guy lights up a GOP baseball team? I listen to NPR on the way to work and hear what is in effect victim blaming, asserting this ultimately falls at the feet of Trump and his culture of violence or whatever the hell it is he's up to. Meanwhile, an organized mob holds a city hostage for two months straight? The chair of the House Judiciary committee gets on TV and tells me it's a myth.
And yes, I'm well aware that Atomwaffen is a recent phenomenon and the guy who drove his car into the Charlottesville crowd isn't ancient history. Those recent phenomenons also regularly have the living shit prosecuted out of them, and you don't see Tucker Carlson or Mitch McConnell getting up on TV defending them.