Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

The Trump administration declared war on the “terrorist organization” of “antifa” and the supposed “networks” associated with it last week. Antifa is not so much a vast national conspiracy as it is simply an abbreviation for anti-fascism – but don’t point out that anti-anti-fascism looks a lot like fascism. That would make you antifa, too. The plain intent of the memo is to make Americans afraid to call fascism what it is – or worse, to say fascism is bad.

President Donald Trump first signed an executive order purporting to classify antifa as a domestic terrorist organization – a designation that doesn’t actually exist. This was followed b …

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