Trump is Right: Antifa Deserves Extinction

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:

• “It’s like a war zone. There are times I’ve had to have a gas mask on inside my own home,” says a resident near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility under siege in south Portland.

• “I only come out during the day. You see all the black-covered Antifa people aren’t here. They come with the night,” says another Portland resident.

• Since early June … The terrorists have violently breached the facility by using a stop sign as a battering ram, hurled explosives and projectiles, burned American flags, viciously assaulted, attacked, and injured officers, doxed officers, berated neighbors, and even rolled out a guillotine.

• In May 2024, an “Antifa anarchist movement” took credit for burning more than a dozen Portland Police Bureau training vehicles.

• In May 2022, Antifa members deployed smoke grenades, paint-filled balloons, and fireworks to break up a campaign event for a Republican political candidate.

• In January 2021, more than 100 Antifa demonstrators attacked Portland police and vandalized property, with some armed with knives and long poles.

• In August 2020, a self-described Antifa militant shot and killed a Patriot Prayer supporter during a riot in Portland, then was later killed after he brandished a weapon while law enforcement attempted to apprehend him on murder charges.

• In 2020, Antifa terrorists led 100 days of carnage and violence in Portland—in which they rioted, looted, burned buildings, bludgeoned officers, deployed power tools and commercial-grade fireworks as weapons, and attempted to destroy a local courthouse.

“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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