Article 70FKM Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

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Elizabeth Lopatto
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The Trump administration declared war on the "terrorist organization" of "antifa" and the supposed "networks" associated with it last week. Antifa is not so much a vast national conspiracy as it is simply an abbreviation for anti-fascism - but don't point out that anti-anti-fascism looks a lot like fascism. That would make you antifa, too. The plain intent of the memo is to make Americans afraid to call fascism what it is - or worse, to say fascism is bad.

President Donald Trump first signed an executive order purporting to classify antifa as a domestic terrorist organization - a designation that doesn't actually exist. This was followed b ...

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