Violent Antifa Has Members Arming Themselves

By Tom Knighton

Antifa is a problem in this country. Calling themselves “antifascists,” the group more closely resembles Hitler’s Brownshirts than any anti-fascist movement I’ve ever seen. They’re quick to resort to violence and have been since before the 2016 election. They’ve done everything from setting fires at their own colleges over speakers to hitting people with bike locks. They’ve weaponized milkshakes and beaten journalists.

They’re already a problem.

The thing is, they’re also an armed problem.

Liberals are notoriously loath to take their own side in a fight. But their reticence may well be changing in an age of vigilante, white nationalist terror—openly condoned and supported by an incumbent president who has suggested that his armed devotees won’t stand for his removal from office. Increasingly, the antifa left is arguing—and training—in response. They are worried not only about an armed reckoning following a contested election, but also about rising violence from the paramilitaries loyal to President Donald Trump.

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Such paranoid fantasies may be familiar to heavy consumers of YouTube and Reddit, but watching them transposed on to the structures of governance is a novelty. As a result, many leftists and even some liberals are beginning to reconsider their feelings about …Read the Rest

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