On Monday, just one day after the Republican Party staged a Horst Wessel-style memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating “antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization.”

The order claims that antifa is a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” that uses “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide.”

Antifa, as even FBI Director Christopher Wray was forced to admit in a September 2020 congressional hearing, is not an organization but a broad current of opposition to fascism. “Antifa is an ideology, not an organization,” said Wray, who also testified that the bureau had no data showing any lethal violence committed by the organization.

Since antifa as a formal organization does not exist, Trump’s executive order amounts to a blanket authorization to brand political dissent and opposition to his fascist regime as “terrorism.”

  • Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    You’re 100% full of shit and should just shut up. The “war on drugs” campaign has no comparison to “antifa” or “antifascism”. The similarities you are assuming aren’t only weak.

    1 is about the epidemics of drugs among America’s youth. The other is a political movement. You conflating and finding similarities that’s fine, enjoy your free time.

    The comparisons you are making aren’t incompatible, but it makes it obvious just how much of a moron you are. Maybe come back when youve graduated middle school