President Donald Trump correctly designated Antifa a domestic-terrorist group.
“Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence,” his Sept. 22 executive order declared. “This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.”
“Not so fast!” the Trump-hating Left responds. They consider Antifa, at worst, Boy Scouts in a bad mood.
The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols dismissed Antifa-led chaos in Portland, Oregon, as the work of “costumed pranksters.” Elsewhere, an Atlantic headline giggled: “Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online.”
Never mind Antifa’s red, white, and black flag; Mark Bray’s “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook” (Melville House, 2017), and this extremist group’s recognition by the Anti-Defamation League, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel swears: “There is no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa.”
“Antifa isn’t an organization!” MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle insisted Wednesday. That night, CNN’s Erin Burnett claimed that “Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited.”
Grabien’s Tom Elliott artfully has curated 10 on-camera lies from Antifa deniers who argue that this brutal outfit is less of a thing than Captain Crunch.
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, D-Ore., denied the mayhem that Antifa currently perpetrates in Portland. “Many of my constituents have been engaged for quite a long time,” Dexter shrugged. “Most of them are middle-aged women who are just trying to bear witness.”
“They’re not bearing witness. They’re bearing arms,” Fox News’ Jesse Watters observed Thursday evening. Citing a recent, locally shot video, he added: “This middle-aged woman’s packing a machete.”
An Oct. 8 White House fact sheet stripped the varnish that left-wing apologists have slathered all over Antifa:
“Rare and limited.” Really?
Also on Wednesday, Trump, well, presided at a White House conference on Antifa. Independent journalists detailed the potentially fatal dangers of covering these bloodthirsty criminals.
“I have been infiltrating Antifa cells in Seattle and Portland for the past decade,” said The Post-Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt. “Antifa uses extreme political violence to crush the civil rights of their political enemies.” She added: “Today, I’m sitting here with a black eye and a concussion after being violently hit in the face with a metal pole while reporting outside the ICE facility.”
“I was ambushed in a mob beating,” while scrutinizing Antifa in 2019, journalist Andy Ngo remembered. “I was bleeding out of my eyes and ears.” He continued: “I was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and CT scan, and I had subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is bleeding in the brain and nearly died.”
Antifa thugs typically wear black and don masks. They recall white-clad Klansmen with hooded faces.
Coincidence? Nope.
Just as the Ku Klux Klan was the postbellum Democratic Party’s ruthless enforcement arm, Antifa is today’s neo-Marxist Democratic Party’s militant wing.
No wonder the Left treats these domestic terrorists so gingerly.
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