American Consequences - October 2017

By Buck Sexton

Every age has its radicals... In America today, the closest thing to a revolutionary political movement is the loosely organized and defined group called “antifa.” The name is a contraction of “anti-fascism,” for that is what these self- aggrandizing activists claim is their core mission. As their narrative goes, those who march and fight under the antifa banner are the only thing standing between America and the long, dark night of fascism that has been threatening our Republic since Donald Trump won the 2016 election. They are “woke” in leftist parlance, meaning antifa are socially conscious class warriors

The American Left's Militant Faction

who operate under the slogan “ by any means necessary ,” including

THEY ARE THE ROWDIEST OF THE SOCIAL JUSTICEWARRIORS ON THE ACTIVIST SCENE... BUT NONE OF THIS IS NEW.

violence. They do this to oppose the “white supremacy” that they view as a defining characteristic of American life and the underlying

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