How the Proud Boys invented antifa - article in Salon.

[Swede]

The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long time, in the sense that there have long been leftists who fight fascism with tactics like outing, public shaming and a very occasional fist to the Nazi nose. But antifa, at least as imagined by President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, simply does not exist.

The president recently signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” which is not a legal designation. His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all. Antifa is not “a militarist, anarchist enterprise,” nor does it use “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism.” It doesn’t “conceal its funding sources and operations,” and it certainly isn’t involved in “spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech.”

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/22/how-the-proud-boys-invented-antifa/

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. As I recall, the plump boys also gave the world the phrase "FAFO"...

Left to their own devices they'd wind up shooting their own eyes out, like their hero Elmer Rhodes. That's probably item #1 in the instructor's copy of the ICEstapo training manual: "Teach these fools how not to shoot their own eyes out."

[underpants]

2. Reading later. 👀

Thanks