Antifa

June 1, 2020

Antifa is a political protest movement comprising autonomous groups affiliated by their militant opposition to fascism and other forms of extreme right-wing ideology. Donald Trump wants to declare it a domestic terror organization. I don’t know much about them, but, from what I have seen after the last few days, they are brilliant and we are in deep trouble.

It bided its time until an innocent black man in Minneapolis, George Floyd, was murdered by a cop on the beat. The brilliance was that they didn’t take the bait right away after Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, and Breonna Taylor had been killed. They waited to spring their uprising. Then, in a New York nanosecond, this well-oiled, anarchic machine organized protests all over the country. They sent their lieutenants to 75 major cities to organize violent and destructive protests designed to destroy the businesses and neighborhoods of their followers. Then they had the audacity to taunt the police and the National Guard by not brandishing AK-47’s. In another sign of their brilliant tactics, they didn’t wear masks so that everyone would know who they were, and they would infect each other. To demonstrate that they are playing the long game, they waited until there were record death and unemployment rates in the black community. If history is any guide, they will soon recede into the shadows only to strike again when another innocent black person gets murdered. Brilliant.

None of us will be safe until they are dealt with. We should militarize white supremacists, who know how to deal with these people. After all, they account for most U.S. domestic terrorism.