what's your view?
The polls were shocking to them. Middle America does not relish rioting in their home town.
I must be out of the loop. I think I’ve only heard one mild criticism of Auntie Fa.
I’m not convinced the left has turned on antifa but if and when they do it will because they will realize back violent savages who want to end America is a recipe for defeat after defeat for as far as the eye can see.
Because it ironically lifted the mask of the Left for the Country to see.
Complicit sympathizers include the parent companies of the MSM: Disney, Comcast, Viacom, and AT&T.
Schools going back in session.
Wait until next campaign season.
They only act like it.
Two words, “Sistah Souljah”.
Focus groups looking ahead to the next election cycle were giving negative feedback. Once the memo goes out all the leftist toadies follow lock step.
Political expediency. Sometimes the revolution requires you to throw a comrade under the bus.
That said, I agree with others that I’m not really seeing the left turn on antifa.
Not turning on them.
Just putting them on the shelf until the heat’s off.
The left will bring back its storm-troopers as soon as it thinks they need them.
“anarchists” “Occupy Wall Street” “Antifa” are merely different brand names for advertising the same product.
It is for show. Another such group will be cultivated and make an appearance, just as there ACORN and the SDS before.
Too much bad publicity.
But don’t write them off yet.
They may get back together again, after all the share one goal: the destruction of the US.
They haven’t. Until we see mass arrests there is no indication they are serious. This is lip service which will stop as soon as they need the unrest again.
Deniability. That’s all.
A few Dems may not yet realize their party is the Soros party, so a little deniability is in order. But antifa/BLM/et all are DNC’s good squads. Most Dems are fine with it as long as they are beating up Repubs or anyone who can be accused of being a Repub.
Because it was not helping them and actually turns out to be a threat to them as well.
Antifa became prominent because the Democrats lost the election and weren’t controlling the agenda. If Hillary had won, she’d be promoting her own agenda and we would never have heard of them. Now the party leadership wants to reclaim the limelight and the initiative, and even outlets that gave antifa attention earlier recognize that the group’s tactics are likely to turn people against them and against the left as a whole.
There usefulness has expired.
But fear not for they will be reincarnated.
All angry leftist groups are eventually the same.
Angry,destructive and demanding...And law breaking.
There is no freedom to destroy other people’s property or to assault people.
They realized that ordinary non-commie, non-ultra-left, non-Islamophile, non-maniacs were starting to see the truth of what I often say: that there is nothing left of the old extreme left that is extreme to them any more.
The DNC was being revealed as a hive of scum and villainy and the media has been slowly reinforcing that fact rather than covering it up.
But the genie is out of the bottle. Leftists that I had previously considered capable of rational thought have started skipping like a proverbial record where the needle is filthy and the LP warped. Leftist that previously sounded like that now often come off as deranged.
And I think a lot of it has to do with a steadfast refusal to get properly mad that Hillary, ever the crook, had to cheat her way through the nomination process to defeat an even loonier socialist nut than she is (I’m not gonna say he’s more honest than she is, but she certainly has had many, many millions to screw people over about ... plus a mess o’bodies ... to demonstrate that she’s a crook).
They continue to circle the wagons around her and are so invested in it they just may give her the nomination in 2020.
It is nothing if not perfectly consistent with their normal power-seeking. Because even they, with their 78 IQ points, are beginning to see parallels with (most recent example) Occupy Wall St. and the parallels to the 70’s radical Democrat activities. Both of which led to substantial and longlasting Republican gains in all theaters. They can see where this is going and what they themselves ultimately will become associated with. They learned, peering through their own mental fog, that the radicalism of the 0bama era is not one of appeal outside of their bubble. There is nothing ethical or positive about the beginning stages of their shift. They seek power and the brighter ones among them are starting to see that Antifa, a movement they cannot control, isn’t going to get them anything but trouble and has every indication of generating a distinct backlash.
In the short term, they love Antifa because the violence of Antifa appears to be directed against Trump, whom they hate. This is revelatory because they’re just reflexively adopting a very simplistic “enemy of my enemy” strategy, without regard to where Antifa will ultimately lead if the movement grows outside of a small but noisy splinter group.
The left is trying to stop Trump from ending DACA by showing they have the ability to stop bashing him.
This is all about DACA.