The latest trick of America’s ruling blowhards is branding the most obvious human decency as terrorism. Say you’re anti-fascist and suddenly you’re a threat to national security. Antifa! they shriek, as if the word itself has fangs.
Let’s be clear. Antifa means anti-fascist. If you aren’t anti-fascist, then what exactly are you? Pro-fascist? Neutral on the question of jackboots and secret police?
The idea that rejecting fascism makes you dangerous is so grotesque it would be laughable if it weren’t being peddled by the Snowflake in Chief and his army of sycophants who can’t stop trembling at the sight of their own shadows.
Do crimes happen at protests? Of course. If someone torches a building, loots a store, or throws a punch, that’s a crime. It should be prosecuted as such. But it doesn’t make every person who despises fascism a terrorist any more than one MAGA hat wearer’s felony makes the entire Republican Party a gang. A crime is a crime, regardless of whether the perpetrator is a Marxist, a monarchist, or the bassoonist in an alt-ska band.
And here’s the kicker: there is no Antifa organization. None. No leader, no membership rolls, no secret lair beneath Portland coffee shops. To declare Antifa a terrorist group is the intellectual equivalent of declaring “people who think smallpox is bad” a cartel. It’s nonsense designed to keep you scared, docile, and obedient to the would-be strongman at the podium.
But this is how fascism always advances: by criminalizing opposition itself. By turning disagreement into disloyalty. By convincing you that standing against tyranny is somehow the true danger.
So fine. If being anti-fascist makes me a terrorist, then slap the label on my chest. Print it in your state-run papers. Add me to your lists. Because I will not cower to the delusion that rejecting authoritarian thuggery is the real crime.
The crime – the true crime – is pretending fascism is just another flavor of politics. The crime is normalizing it. And the crime is letting a coward at the White House convince you that the people who stand against tyranny are the real threat.
So let me ask you plainly: Are you not Antifa?