Pretty goddamned hilarious to see claims that resistance to white supremacists is what legitimizes them, from the side that elected Trump. Trump ran on a campaign of white supremacy. Republicans jumped right over a dozen more qualified candidates to elect the guy who showed the most racial hatred. They liked him because wanted to ban Muslims, kick Mexicans out, question the birthplace of a president because he was black, and refuse to even disavow David fucking Duke, when telling David Duke to take a hike is the free space in any game of political bingo.
Donald Trump made these assholes feel safe, like they'd "won" and now America was going to be a white-supremacist country and it's just too damn bad for the "libtards." White supremacy has been on the rise long before any of the people who now scream about "antifa" even knew what that was.
Antifa's not new. I've known about about Antifa for decades, because I'm into punk rock, and they're a fringe element of that scene. They've never been a huge thing, and they still aren't. They also aren't Democrats -- they're "anarchists" or communists, which is some silly shit that Democrats actually frown on... and you'd know that if you spent any time on Democratic websites. I spend a lot of time on Redstate and Free Republic, etc. because I want to kill off the G.O.P. and you can't hunt an animal you don't know. If you're hunting bears, and you don't know where they sleep, what they eat, how they hunt, how they breed, where they hang out, what they think and what motivates them, then ya ain't huntin', you're just walking in the woods. And it's become abundantly clear, from watching the right-wingers here and elsewhere, that they don't do a damn thing when it comes to recon. They still use their silly "comrade" taunts and are combating "Commies." They have no clue who they're actually dealing with... which is why they're going to lose in the long run. Politics is a war of attrition, and demographics are dooming the GOP. The young people see through them, they've tied themselves to a religion that they've disgraced by electing a guy who's about as un-Christian as it gets, their economic policies have proven to be complete hogwash, and they get all their news from wacky propaganda outlets that fill them with lies. And now they've exposed themselves as motivated by racism beyond almost anything else. That's why they picked Trump. And now it's biting them in the ass, and they're scared.
All you hear now from them is "antifa" because, as I said, they're desperate. They focus on that when they don't even seem to have heard of things like Identity Evropa, The Proud Boys, Christian Identity, 4chan, Daily Stormer, Stormfront... all that other upstart racist shit. And that's where the real violence is. Antifa is just resistance. Sometimes misguided, yeah, sometimes stupid, sometimes detrimental to their own cause... but, if you really want to kill off Antifa, then you fucking address the Nazis, the Klan, the Proud Boys, and all their other ilk. Because if you get rid of them, Antifa will fade because they'll have nothing to do. The white supremacists provoke everything... antifa just show up to fight them. The alt-right are staging the rallies. They're the instigators.
But we don't hear a peep about them out of the right-wingers. Because, honestly, deep down, that's who they sympathize with. They think the alt-right white-knight scumbags are protecting Republican heritage and "white culture" so they turn a blind eye to that, and focus instead on the people who resist them, and try to blame them for it. The people who punch the bullies back are the real bad guys, according to much of the right. That's the narrative they want to create.
Nope. Trump courted this, he invited it in, and his supporters are so embarrassed by it they're trying to put the blame on the resistance to it, so they won't have to address it.
Ridiculous.
All you have to do is look. Hell, go to Twitter today, see the #burnmyMAGAhat stuff. The only thing making them burn their stupid hats now is because Trump lightened up on DACA. That's how goddamned racist the right-wing has become now. That's what motivates 'em. Trump didn't punish the brown people enough and that's what it took to turn them against him.
That's the truth, everything else is a pathetic dodge to try to avoid acknowledging it.