"People on the left don't set things on fire, or take people out on the back roads and kill them."

Hello?

You have a lot of brushing up on history to do, and recent events. Revolutionary left-wing terrorist organizations were common in Western Europe from the late 1960s.

From the more recent European news:

"Attacks carried out by left-wing violent extremists have been on the rise since 2014; they reached a total of 27 in 2016, of which most (16) were reported by Italy."

Do you not watch the news? Have you not seen the banks and offices in Greece getting pulverized and torched by hoards of masked protestors? Those Greeks are a lot closer to Marx and Stalin than they are to Harper and Preston and Mulroney...