Antifa Exposed: The Violent Face of Far-Left Terror

How do you define a group whose existence is predicated on lies and hate?

 

 “What, exactly, is Antifa?” a friend asked me.

“Well, it’s kind of complicated,” I said.

After all, how do you define a group whose entire existence is predicated on lies and hate?

Let us first consider the inscriptions on unfired casings belonging to Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson. On one casing, the killer inscribed “Hey, fascist catch.” Another casing was etched with the chorus to the Italian song, “Bella Ciao”—a song widely acknowledged as an Antifa anthem. Interestingly, the song also has a long history of being appropriated by anyone who fancies themselves a revolutionary or resistance fighter.

So we’ve established the fact that Antifa, shorthand for “anti-fascist,” has co-opted a song that—according to some accounts—was popularized by Italian partisans who opposed WWII dictator Benito Mussolini.

Yet anyone with a basic knowledge of history should know that it was America who supported Italian partisan efforts to overthrow Mussolini and his puppet regime. It was the United States, through the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), that provided critical aid to the Italian resistance. (Check out journalist and WWII spy Peter Tompkins’ account of those events on the CIA website.)

America sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to defeat fascism—yet today, thuggish rioters sow chaos to fight a fictional enemy they deludedly brand American ‘fascists.’

We all know Charlie Kirk wasn’t a fascist hiding behind a “freedom” shirt. He supported the Trump administration, which has also falsely—and absurdly—been labeled fascist. So how does a so-called anti-fascist activist justify killing a man who championed free speech nearly every day of his life? As Charlie Kirk himself said in 2020, “ANTIFA does more to further fascism in America than fight it.”

At President Trump’s Oct. 8 roundtable on Antifa, Attorney General Pam Bondi specifically defined Antifa as a “domestic left-wing terrorist organization” and elaborated on their activities, saying: “We’ve seen them on video for years because they wanted to be seen and they got away with it. They beat journalists. They attack courthouses. They attack police stations. They dox and assault our law enforcement officers.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem characterized Antifa as “terrorists” with an agenda to destroy the American people and our way of life. At the same time, FBI Director Kash Patel called them “organized criminal thugs, gangbangers, and yes, domestic terrorists.”

President Trump opened the roundtable, highlighting recent examples of left-wing violence. Anarchists in Chicago, for instance, surveilled ICE facilities and posted “images of ICE agents along with their names, faces, and badge numbers”—clear acts of intimidation. In Texas, Antifa-aligned militants stormed an ICE building, firing dozens of rounds and wounding an officer in the neck. Portland, that hotbed of far-left activism, has seen repeated sieges on federal property, with thugs assaulting officers enforcing lawful immigration policies. In Dallas, a sniper attack on an ICE facility left two dead, accompanied by the warning: “Hopefully, this will give ICE agents some real terror.” These aren’t isolated incidents; they’re part of a growing threat Trump rightly calls “left-wing terror.”

During the roundtable event, Navy intelligence veteran and Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec gave the best summary of Antifa, stating:

“Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost a hundred years; in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany. And it’s now been just under one month since we saw a far-leftist murder Charlie Kirk. And we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other far-leftists, and people in positions of authority, people like nurses and pilots and doctors and HR departments, celebrating the death and the murder of Charlie Kirk. This sickness that’s out there is absolutely real.”

Posobiec’s remarks underscore a chilling possibility: seemingly regular folks who today celebrate Kirk’s death could tomorrow become Antifa recruits engaging in violence themselves. Surely Antifa considers them a resource to be tapped.

Antifa falls under the larger umbrella of far-left domestic terrorism, yet it’s hard to pin the tail on the donkey. In short, the nomenclature hasn’t quite caught up with the rapidly evolving nutjobs and the loosely organized groups that attract them.

Yet these scoffers display the same ignorance they attribute to Antifa rioters. Firstly, Antifa and their media apologists undermine the legacy of European wartime anti-fascist groups, like General Charles de Gaulle’s heroic Free French, who fought against Nazi occupation under constant threat of death. Modern anti-fascists misrepresent history, tilting at windmills because they have no existential threats like those seen in WWII. Secondly, wartime resistance groups relied on violence as a necessary tool against oppressive regimes and brutal occupations—conditions absent in 2025 America, where a duly elected president governs in a democratic system.

That said, some anti-Nazi groups in the Weimar era—particularly far-left communists like the KPD (Communist Party of Germany) and their militant wing, Antifaschistische Aktion—actually contributed to Hitler’s rise.

They fractured the opposition through infighting, demanded absolute adherence to their revolutionary vision, and engaged in street violence that destabilized the republic, fueling Nazi narratives of restoring order.

This is all well-documented in “The Origins of Antifa” over at the “revolutionary socialist news site” Left Voice—if anyone in certain media would like to learn more.

Finally, let’s debunk the misleading claim that President Trump openly confessed to stripping away Constitutional rights when he said, “We took the freedom of speech away.” This quote, ripped out of context during the roundtable on Antifa, actually reveals the administration’s legal pivot in the Executive Order: “Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag.“ To most of us, he was clearly saying that they reframed the issue: Instead of trying to criminalize flag burning as speech (which courts have repeatedly struck down), they focused on the secondary effects—specifically, when flag burning ”incites” immediate violence or riots.

“We’re looking at it … not from the freedom of speech … but when you burn an American flag, you incite tremendous violence. We have many examples of it,” Trump explained.

What best illustrates the urgency? The roundtable discussion had turned to journalist Nick Sortor’s harrowing experience in Portland, where he intervened to snatch a burning American flag from an Antifa agitator during a violent anti-ICE protest. Ambushed and assaulted by rioters, he was then arrested by Portland police for “disorderly conduct,” while the burners went free.

Sortor, a conservative reporter who’d been documenting the unrest, posted videos of what happened. While charges against Sortor were dropped, it’s unclear if he will pursue charges against the Portland police.

Many other journalists and conservative influencers attended the roundtable discussion, describing alleged assaults at the hands of Antifa-like mobs. Independent journalist Andy Ngo told how he nearly died from a brain bleed after an attack in Portland in 2019.

In summary, I am convinced that everyone around me has the potential to be an Antifa activist. So the next time someone asks me, “What is Antifa?” I will say, “I don’t know, but I believe they are all around us.”