The Trump administration has been blaming a lot of the shit they do on a group called "ANTIFA."
Every time somebody gets upset about stuff the Far Right is doing they perform a little pirouette and loudly proclaim..., THAT WAS ANTIFA!
Just to let you know what we're dealing with here I have included a description of what this "Left-Wing" group is all about..., and how they are not "terrorists" as Trump likes to call them!
Antifa is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement located in the United States. It is highly decentralized and comprises an array of autonomous groups that aim to achieve their objectives through the use of direct action rather than through policy reform.
Much of antifa political activism is nonviolent, involving poster and flyer campaigns, mutual aid, delivering speeches, marching in protest, and community organizing.
They also engage in protest tactics, seeking to combat fascists and racists such as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other far-right extremists, and differing from other leftist opposition movements by their willingness to directly confront far-right activists, and in some cases law enforcement. This may involve digital activism, harassment, physical violence, and property damage against those whom they identify as belonging to the far right
There have been multiple efforts to discredit antifa groups via hoaxes on social media, many of them false flag attacks originating from alt-right and 4chan users posing as antifa backers on Twitter. Some hoaxes have been picked up and reported as fact by right-leaning media. During the George Floyd protests in May and June 2020, the Trump administration blamed antifa for orchestrating the mass protests whilein reality it was mostly right-wing groups!
There have been repeated calls by Donald Trump and William Barr to designate antifa as a terrorist organization despite the fact that it is not an organization.
This is a move that academics, legal experts, and others argue would exceed the authority of the presidency and violate the First Amendment.
Several analyses, reports, and studies concluded that antifa is not a major domestic terrorism risk and ranked far-right extremism and white supremacy as the bigger risk.
So we see that ANTIFA is not the problem the Republicans claim it is..., but just the same it makes a good scapegoat for anything Trump wants to deflect from his own sins!
The way I see it anyway!
