Too easily rejected as hyperbole, the Antifa myth is used as a weapon to destroy the domestic opposition.
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Donald Trump’s authoritarianism is becoming more arrogant after Charlie Kirk’s murder. But the main journalists were unable to describe the full degree of new Trump radicalism, choosing to focus on whether its deprivation is actual or legitimate, rather than studying the great ideological goals that he pursues.
For example, last Monday Trump signed The executive order claiming that Antifa is a “home terrorist organization”. Thursday he signed The directive on national security, which, according to the chief assistant Stephen Miller, would create “comprehensive efforts to dismantle the left wing terrorism.” Asked who finances such a “left wing terrorism”, Trump Called two leading sponsors Democratic Party and Union Main Liberal Reasons, George Soros and Raid Hoffman. The targeting of these two brought tangible advantages to Trump; On Friday, The New York Times report This, despite the fact that the Soros family remains committed to political activity, Hoffman “has greatly disappeared from political publications in 2025 and much less publicly determines their differences with Mr. Trump.”
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On Saturday Trump published that he is authorized by the so -called “military secretary” Pete Hegset to “provide all the necessary troops to protect the war of the destroyed Portland and any of our ice objects, which are siege from the attack of antih and other internal terrorists.” Trump allowed to use “full force, if necessary” for deployment. Thus, Portland joins a number of American cities in which Trump has sent or plans to send troops to a list that includes Washington, Los -Andgeles, Chicago and Memphis.
The deployment of Portland, along with the Democratic Party’s sacrifice as supporters of the terrorists, shows that Trump uses an anti -ideological ghost as ideological rationalization for his domestic political opponents.
However, most of the initial reporting on Trump’s executive orders stopped this obvious truth, focusing on narrower, more technical issues regarding the expediency of the Cross Hike against Antifa. The New York Times report What “there are basic actual and legal problems in any effort of the government to officially appoint an anti -terrorist group in any significant way.”
This is very clearly true. One of the problems is that Antifa is not really an organization but as Term It is clearly noted that “the label for political subculture or protest style. There is no leader, initiation process, membership, staff, bank account or centralized structure.” And even if the antifa was an actual institution, there are no legal provisions as intended for the internal group as a terrorist organization. The legally designation of the “terrorist” only extends to foreign groups.
But although these actual and legal observations are a good starting point for Trump’s criticism, they are unlikely to record the true nature of its project.
The antifa used by Trump and his associates is a myth. Checking the facts of the myth is never a proper answer because it does not affect the emotional appeal that the myth serves. Mark Bray, a historian from the University of Rutgers and the author of the company Antifa: Anti -Fascist Guide (2017), said in an interview that people who relate to the antifa have not been “on the street recently” and certainly not funded by billionaires like Soros. Most likely, Trump uses Antifa as a “Bougane Category” for all the trends that are correct. Black life, exceeding the rights and rights of immigrants, were all embarrassed by antifa and terrorism.
Fiction has subtexts Nazi myth about Judea-Bolshevism. The Nazis came up with a fantasy that wealthy Jews had undermined the German society, funding the revolution: the ideological chimera, which allowed the Nazis to represent as opponents of both unpopular pluts and scary plebeians. The myth of the antih, which is funded by Soros, can perform a similar function for contism: the unification of populist and law and the order of law.
The antifa myth is elastic enough to cover the widespread analysis of the opposition before Trump, the liberal, and the radical.
Writing on his replacement, journalist Ken Klippenstein reports What a national security directive signed by Trump has far -reaching consequences. The directive, which is a sample after the war with a terrorist approach to groups such as al -Kid, allows law enforcement agencies to prevent groups that can be threatened. “Indians” or rates of violence in the report are anxious. As Klippenstein notes, they include:
• Anti -Americanism,
• Anti -Copitalism,
• Anti -Christianity,
• Support the overthrow of the US Government,
• Extremism by migration,
• Extremism on race,
• Extremism on the floor,
• Environmental to those who adhere to traditional American views on the family,
• Environmental to those who adhere to traditional American views on religion and
• Environmental to those who adhere to traditional American views on morality.
The Trump administration seems to intend to use these new directives to attack the rights to free speech of its critics. On Wednesday Stephen Miller Twitter“This language is fueled by violence and terrorism,” in response to criticism of California Governor Gavin Newsma to the Trump’s ice and the authoritarian administration.
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Greg Sargent, the writer for New republic. shut Former Trump Advisor Steve Benan “If he believes that Miller’s tweets mean that federal law enforcement agencies should now be criminally investigated by groups that describe ice as” authoritarian “.
Benan replied, “Yes. Stephen Miller is more important that he is responsible.”
Antifa myth is a wedge that will be used to destroy free speech. It is not enough to just note that it’s a myth. Rather, the Democrats need to unite Americans with the argument that the threat of antih will once be used against those opposed Trump.
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