National Proud Boys Leader, Enrique Tassio, and Senator Ted Cruz - Cruz co-sponsored a Senate resolution based on a petition written by Tarrio to designate the left wing group Antifa as a 'domestic terrorist organization!
Social Democrats in Germany that designated them as an extremist group as well... This idea that "it's just the idea is to oppose fascism" is nonsense. They're using the same type of semantic overload that PETA likes to use. Give yourself a noble sounding name that sounds like it's a single-threaded, noble purpose, bundle in a bunch of garbage ideologies in there with it, and then use that noble-sounding purpose as a defense mechanism when criticized for all of the other stuff... it's not a hard scheme to figure out.
The 1960's Antifa in Germany (the particular iteration of Antifa that our current US Antifa movement is trying to emulate based on their symbolism, slogans, and flags) started with the premise "we're just trying to get rid of the extreme right wingers in government", within a matter of two years, they were attacking moderates and social democrats (like Bernie) for "not being far enough left" and labelling them "Social Fascists" for not wanting to abolish private property and eliminate law enforcement institutions.
We've already seen that happening, they've already started slinging attacks at left-leaning mayors like Lightfoot, Wheeler, Durkin, and Frey.
They only pretend to side with people like Bernie because it's advantageous (the enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of logic), but in every instance going back to the 30's, Antifa has ended up turning on center-left social democrats once all of the actual extreme right wingers were out of the picture...
Some light reading to brush up on...
German government institutions such as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Agency for Civic Education describe the contemporary Antifa movement as part of the extreme left and as partially violent. Antifa groups are monitored by the federal office in the context of its legal mandate to combat extremism.[1][2][3][6] The federal office states that the underlying goal of the Antifa movement is "the struggle against the liberal democratic basic order" and capitalism.[2][3] At times, the movement has been accused by German authorities of engaging in terrorist acts of violence.[7]
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution describes the field of "anti-fascism" or "Antifa" as extremist[3] and includes it and associated groups in its annual public reports on extremism as part of the topic "far-left extremism".[6] The federal office further notes that "[t]he field of 'anti-fascism' has for years been a central element of the political activity of far-left extremists, especially violent ones. [...] Far-left extremists within this tradition only superficially claim to fight far-right activities. In reality the focus is the struggle against the liberal democratic basic order, which is smeared as a 'capitalist system' with 'fascist' roots".[2] a former director with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, notes that "even if every convinced democrat is an opponent of fascism, anti-fascism is not per se a democratic position". According to Pfahl-Traughber, one must distinguish between "fascism in a scholarly sense" and "fascism in a far-left extremist sense".[1]
Even "liberals" in Germany (a nation that's more progressive than we are, so their liberals are more left than our "liberals" are) have recognized what they're actually about, and rightfully so, have monitored them closely.
"Antifa" isn't a new movement by any means, they've been around since the late 30's. And in each case, they start by opposing actual fascists and far-right extremists, but then end up turning on the moderates and center-left after all of the actual fascists and far-right are gone.
Much like with their origin movements in the 30's and 60's and 80's, they want to promote communism under the guise of "opposing fascism"
