[Dr. Pritchett]

Meh. I don’t know. First of all “Antifa” is a made up word, it sounds stupid, and even though it’s what they call themselves it’s not what they are. They are not anti-fascists for sure. I’m not sure I’d recommend DJT adopt their vocabulary. I’d rather he call them fascists or domestic terrorists.

[Just mythoughts]

Antifa sounds like Intifada ... and I think it was done so deliberately.. Obama think...

[nopardons]

He still MUST condemn them, as he did, though he didn’t mention them by name, last SATURDAY!

[VietVet]

Antifa was the name of the German Communist Party street fighters, their version of the Nazi SA, during the 20’s and early 30’s in the Wiemar Republic (Germany). Like the SA, they were organized and wore uniforms, which deliberately resembled the uniforms of the Red Army during the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.

After WWII, the name was revived, as was the emblem, altho’ the uniform changed, for persons and organizations of similar philosophy and purpose. Over time, they absorbed (or hid themselves among) the Anarchists. They are an international movement.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...First of all “Antifa” is a made up word,...

So is alt-right! (Whatever the hell that means)

[evilC]

The “antifa are the real fascists” is the most stupid of conservative attempts at rhetoric.

Fascist does not mean stuff I don’t like.

They call themselves antifascists because that is what are. They see fascism as Whites or conservatives having any opinion or expressing any identity.

They are anti-White shock troops of the establishment. If you doubt that ask yourself in any Fortune 500 company is pushing nationalism, immigration restriction, or opposes gay marriage and tranny bathrooms.

They may feel themselves rebels but they do the establishments work: discouraging White people and/or conservatives from organizing, disrupting those events if they do actually organize.

They are not fascists. They are hateful, they are the enemy, but they are not fascist.

Call them what they are: anti-White terrorists.

[windowdude]

Maybe he should channel his inner-German?

Antifaschistische Aktion

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

First of all “Antifa” is a made up word

. . . but then - as “liberals” mean it - ”liberal” is a made-up word, too. The word existed, and was appreciated as a positive label, prior to 1920.

If you read The Road to Serfdom (Reader’s Digest Condensed Version here), you will see that FA Hayek used the term “liberal” to denote people who today would be called “conservatives” in America. That is because Hayek, an Austrian, learned English in America before the meaning of “liberal” was essentially inverted, according to Safire's New Political Dictionary, in the 1920s. And the meaning of “liberal” was not changed in Britain, where Hayek wrote Serfdom during WWII.

I have my own Newspeak-English dictionary:

objective :

reliably promoting the interests of Big Journalism. (usage: always applied to journalists who are members in good standing; never applied to anyone but a journalist)

liberal :

see "objective," except that the usage is reversed: (usage: never applied to any working journalist)

progressive :

see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").

moderate:

see "liberal." (usage: same as for "liberal").

centrist :

see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").

conservative :

antonym of “objective"

right-wing :

see, "conservative."