Yes, leftists in this case and we have recently seen it on the Right. She needs to be slapped upside the head for saying, “Riots are the language of the unheard.” But the title of your post should be “rioters” not “leftists”. Americans broadly see this as a danger from both sides, maybe even more from the Right at this particular moment in time (although the poll results below would probably have been different last summer).
Do you think there is more extremism with:
Republicans? 42%
Democrats? 25%
Both about the same? 32%
(ABC News poll Feb, 2021)